Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdul-Razzak Al-Hassani

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 of the debate was keep. --Angr (t·c) 21:01, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Abdul-Razzak Al-Hassani

Author too obscure, to say the least. The google test lists zero entries on the author and barnes & noble lists zero entries on the book. Mecanismo | Talk 14:54, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Weak Delete I found a couple of mentions of the book on Google (mostly as footnotes) so the book and its author seem to be real. The question is, should he get an article? If that's all there is to say about him, probably not, though I'd be happy to be convinced otherwise if additional information turns up. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:50, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep; it is not especially surprising that an author from Iraq who has published a book in 1956 does not have much Internet presence. However, there is some evidence that the author and the book existed: [1]. Note that Razzak seems sometimes to be spelled Razzaq or Razak [2], and the hyphens seems to be optional :-O. - Liberatore(T) 19:33, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• keep as per above Jcuk 21:44, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup as per Paolo Liberatore. Capitalistroadster 21:53, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Needs more research, but could be important in Iraq history. -- JJay 21:58, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Paolo. Old Iraqi books are almost certain to not have a web presence and they are very unlikely to be sold in American bookstores. That doesn't make any of it non-verifiable, though. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:36, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I am from Iraq and I am the one who wrote the article, he might be unknown to western readers but he is a very well known historian in Iraq, I have 3 of his books, unfortunately they are all in Arabic. Please refer to these websites to know more about that historian,[[3]]. [[4]]. - User:Classic_971.

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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.