Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reşo Zîlan
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was keep. The Bushranger One ping only 07:46, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
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This is a vanity article of Non notable writer, part of a walled garden of cruft created by same editor, does not meet WP:GNG. Doesn't meet WP:BIO's standards. Even on a site like Amazon I can only find one book (a dictionary) but the dictionary is unavailable. Hassan Rebell (talk) 12:26, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. sst✈(discuss) 15:12, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sweden-related deletion discussions. sst✈(discuss) 15:12, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
Delete - Same issues as with the previous ones: Mahabad Qaradaghi, Abdulla Pashew and Rafiq Sabir. Ceosad (talk) 16:36, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
- I will pull back my vote, I have completely failed to investigate properly these people. I am not sure what that indeffing case is all about, but I do not want to get involved. Ceosad (talk) 00:19, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- But @Ceosad:, with all due respect, if you've "completely failed to investigate properly these people," why were you "voting" to delete these articles in the first place? WP:BEFORE and WP:PRESERVE applies to all participants at Afd, and we are here to build an encyclopedia, not delete content merely on someone's say so. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:35, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Shawn in Montreal: I wrongly assumed that these people failed the WP:GOOGLETEST. I live in Finland, so the Google decided to spam me with very fringe search results about Kurdish diaspora activities in Sweden. (Swedish is an official language here too.) The local search engine biases can get misleading, and in this case they were extremely bad for me. The very few comprehensible sources I found and looked at were all about diaspora stuff. I should use other search engines more often, especially when Sweden is concerned. A few years ago the Finnish street names were all broken on Google Maps for many months and they all had Swedish names etc. Something might be broken in my Google settings too. Ceosad (talk) 22:22, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
- Note: Nom has been indeffed per WP:NOTHERE. —МандичкаYO 😜 22:47, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
- Keep I think the nominator has an ideosyncratic view of what a "vanity article" is. The creator of this article (Vekoler) has worked on Wikipedia for over ten years, and created a number of articles about important Kurds. His earlier creations, such as this one, reflect the citation style and throughness of Wikipedia at the time they were written. If it were not for the nominator's failure to perform WP:BEFORE searching in nominating a large number of Kurdish articles, and failing in some cases, such as in this one, to notify article creators about the AFDs, and as an IP editor failing to check archive data in the process of marking citation links as dead and declaring articles to be unsourced, he might be forgiven for mistaking this non-promotional article for a "vanity" one. Keep as he meets criteria #6 of WP:PROF. --Bejnar (talk) 00:51, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
- Keep. Here are some articles about him: Malmîsanij and Reşo Zîlan gave talks on Kurdish language in a seminar in Diyarbakir (2009), Interview with Reşo Zîlan on his immigrant experience in Sweden 2015, Interview with Reşo Zîlan, Swedish government's assistance in Kurdish translations and Reşo Zîlan's role in training Kurdish translators, Reşo Zîlan's talk on Kurdish Dictionaries 2012.Vekoler (talk) 21:19, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
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