Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nawaz Imam

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. -Splash^talk 01:29, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nawaz Imam

Delete Strong Delete NN Vanity Unable to verify any indication that he is a published poet beyond mirrors of this article and numerous ldead inks to a defunct Geocities site he had set up for the poetry he had written. Caerwine 17:22, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete or better yet, send to uncyclopedia. Did you read this? Very funny! KillerChihuahua 23:01, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

KEEP - ALL INFORMATION IS VERIFIABLE - READ THIS - He is an internationally acclaimed poet, his poetry can be read here http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:3nGdauexxcsJ:www.geocities.com/musicplanet2k/nazpoems.htm and his poetry is published in an international antholody ISBN 0-7951-5160-8. Proof that he is an investment banker: http://ubs.chichi.me.uk/?p=38 Proof that he won LSE prize on LSE internal site. 82.35.90.111 23:07, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

• Ok the version I saw was this one: [1] which appears to have been vandalism. Sorry about that. Looking at the very stubby current version, and googling, my position is still delete. Not very noteable. Concur with Caerwine.
• Comment The LSE internal site link is password protected. Neither Amazon nor Amazon UK (which I checked since he is a UK person) have any record of a book with ISBN 0-7951-5160-8 , so either the info is in error, is for a book yet to be sold, or is fraudulent, which given the lack of a title is probably either unsold or fraudulent. And publishing to a Geocities webpage, especially one that is only accessible via wayback machine type caches, is definitively not notable. so I'm changing my vote now to a strong delete. Caerwine 14:05, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Comment In May 2002 several of his works were entered in the semi-finals of Poetry.com's International Open Poetry Contest, published in Autumn 2002 in "Letters from the Soul", a collection of over 1500 works - ISBN 0-7951-5160-8. Additionally, he was selected as one of just 33 authors to appear on "The Sound of Poetry" CD. 82.35.90.111 22:42, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Comment Thanks for providing even more reasons for the article to be deleted. poetry.com is a vanity press that publishes small quantities of large numbers of poetry compilations for people who either don't know any better or don't care.
  • NO PERSONAL ATTACKS

(See link in amateur writing.) The Sound of Poetry, is the same thing, only done to CD instead of paper by poetry.com's parent company, The International Library of Poetry. Being a self-published poet does not make one notable unless people actually buy the book, and I've seen no indication that anyone beyond his friends and relatives have even seen the book. To quote from the Better Business Bureau file on the company:

The company is a vanity publisher of hardbound anthologies, which feature amateur poets, of paperback volumes of poetry by single authors, and of a magazine for amateur poets. The books are not distributed and cannot be found in bookstores. They are only distributed to those who pay to have their work included. The quality of the poetry does not appear to be a significant consideration for selection for publication. However, according to the company, poems containing obscenities or offensive language are rejected.

Caerwine 00:36, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep - your just jealous u cant get published in hardback it is a big achievement 195.188.203.59 11:25, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. *drew 08:49, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Vanity press means LESS than nothing. --Calton | Talk 02:26, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.