Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Türker Armaner

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Randykitty (talk) 18:09, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Türker Armaner[edit]

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Couldn't establish WP:NOTABILITY as meeting WP:AUTHOR, WP:ACADEMIC or WP:GNG. However, the language issue may well mean I'm missing something. Has been tagged for notability for 6 years - hopefully a discussion will fully resolve it one way or the other. Boleyn (talk) 19:07, 31 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

keep The ref cited in article is a long signed review of his book in the online version of a major Turkish newspaper: google translation. I assume the other books will have similar reviews. These other books can be verified in Worldcat--that any US library has holdings shows them of some significance, considering the near-total neglect of Turkish studies in the US. The books are fiction, so his notability would be as an author, not a professor. His thesis too can be verified, and I added the link to the article. I can not see any reason why one would challenge an article of this nature, one with a good reference. An author whose works could not be verified would be another matter. There are many presumably notable non-European writers where that is the case, and our inability to write sustainable articles on them because of referencing problems is a significant & unfortunate cultural bias. When we can do as well as this, we're doing fine. DGG ( talk ) 21:17, 31 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per DGG's additions and persuasive reasoning based on his expertise as a librarian. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 01:11, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 15:09, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination withdrawn - pleas close AfD based on 2 comments above. Boleyn (talk) 16:50, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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