Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abbakar Adam Ismail

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 delete. Coredesat 04:39, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Abbakar Adam Ismail

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Notability β^_command 08:25, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, fails WP:BIO. --Brewcrewer 08:38, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy delete. There is no assertion in the article of notability; nor are there any reliable sources that can be found through Google, mainly you get Wikipedia mirrors. I'm tagging it as A7. If this had been an American or European author with the same basic biographical details, I think people would have been more likely to tag it as A7.--h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 16:31, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep. I removed the A7, since it is asserted he has published a novel. This is not much of an assertion, but it defeats A7. The English version of the name is also spelled Abakar Adam Ismail, and under that name the novel was published in translation as The Road to the Impossible Cities by "Key Publishing", an Arabic/English publisher in Toronto--probably not a vanity publisher. Their transliterated version of the Arabic title is Al-Tariq ila Al-Mudn Al-Mustahila They have also published another novel of his, "The Other Shore." (Aldifa Alokhra). The website quotes some reviews that seem to be in Arabic, but not Unicode, so the characters don't show on my computer . I'm looking for more info on them. I wasn't being clever with the name, Google suggested it. I cannot check what might be in Arabic. -- Specialist needed. I don't think it safe to delete an article about someone asserted to be an author until someone who knows the language checks how much the person has written; often a person who has read just one book does the article. DGG (talk) 18:17, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
  • "The Key Publish House" does at least some self-publishing.^[1] --A. B. ^(talk) 19:29, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as not notable; I've tried Google web, news and news archive searches but turned up nothing to meet WP:BIO. --A. B. ^(talk) 19:30, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletions. -- A. B. ^(talk) 19:13, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletions. -- A. B. ^(talk) 19:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

• Delete No evidence that the subject meets WP:BIO. Moreover, I note that his books are not available through Amazon.ca or Chapters/Indgo. His books are not held at Library and Archives Canada, as one would expect. It would appear that Key Publishing is a vanity publisher, as evidenced by the "Self-Publishers' Aid" found on their website. It should not be confused with Key Porter Books, one of Canada's largest publishers, which is also located in Toronto. Victoriagirl 20:20, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

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