Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ali Dehbashi

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The result was No Consensus for now. Something of a shopping list but the journal was closed as a keep and with a mind to avoiding Anglocentrism, I'd be reluctant to delete such a long standing article at the first objection without a clear signal from the community that it should go. Obviously, there are concerns about the article as detailed below but I hope that a reprieve at this stage will add impetus towards its improvement. Spartaz ^Humbug! 20:06, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ali Dehbashi

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He might be notable, but this is just a resume. If and when independent evidence of notability is found, feel free to start over. Biruitorul 04:10, 17 October 2007 (UTC) * Delete or reformat so that humans can read it. I confess I cannot face the thought of working my way through a closely-spaced paragraph of 1,569 improperly-punctuated words just to find out if this man ever wrote anything himself other than introductions to other people's work, but it looks as if his main work was as an editor, which doesn't seem to confer notability -- and the article does not seem to assert notability. I'm prepared to do a reasonable amount of research work to find out if something is notable, but this is courting eyestrain for no easily-apparent reason. Accounting4Taste 04:44, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

• Comment The same reasoning applies to the journal he edits, Bukhara magazine, which contains the same text dump of publications. I was going to suggest that the material about the editor be moved to the article about the journal, which might have notability. Neither article seems to have exterior references and both seem to be part of a walled garden that defeats attempts to analyze its possible notability with sheer weight of verbiage. Accounting4Taste 04:49, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
  • As per my comment at the AfD at Bukhara magazine, a big vote of thanks to DGG for skillful work with the pruning shears, which leaves both articles much less daunting. I'm now willing to hold on to both these articles until WikiProject Iran can take them in hand, re-write and wikify. I suspect it might be best to merge this entry with the magazine, but whatever works out will be fine by me. Accounting4Taste 06:29, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

I made it a little easier to read. Took only a few minutes. A sort by genre might make more sense, though. DGG (talk) 00:20, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. —David Eppstein 16:44, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as per Accounting4Taste. The journal page seems a good candidate for AfD, too.... --Crusio 17:01, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Done. Biruitorul 01:45, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete particularly per Accounting4Taste. Pig^man 18:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep and remove duplication. "Editor" can mean a great many things, and I can't tell from the list. (I probably couldn't tell from the books either--it needs a specialist) . He's been responsible for two Persian language journals. Each of them is in the expected 20 or so major US & UK academic libraries. I imagine they are therefore standard journals. WP is global, and to the extent of the material available to me, it is quite possibly notable. I've notified Wikiproject Iran. The nominator should have done so. DGG (talk) 00:12, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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