Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ali Faik Zaghloul
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[edit] Ali Faik Zaghloul
Contested prod. A good faith search for references found nothing but Wikipedia for (Zaghloul "Egyptian Radio Magazine"), fails WP:N and WP:V. I came across the article while working Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles and as best as I can tell there is no evidence that anything in the article is true or accurate. I am not sure but I believe that even the Arabic version of the article [1] is unreferenced and tagged appropriately Jeepday (talk) 02:35, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- Keep for now. Let's not jump the gun. Seek advice from Arabic-speaking Wikipedians, as topics such as this may not have easily located English-language sources. Give it a few days, and please use discussion before resorting to tactics such as this; the article certainly doesn't seem like any type of hoax and we don't discriminate in our subject matter against Arabic topics. Badagnani (talk) 02:41, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- Comment No offense is intended, the article has been posted as unreferenced for nearly 2 years. I made a good faith search for references and came up empty. Please remember that The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material. Jeepday (talk) 02:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- Delete, WP:NN, WP:RS, WP:V. Esradekan Gibb "Talk" 03:06, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- Delete, agree w/ rationale provided above by Jeepday (talk · contribs). Cirt (talk) 03:40, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- Delete because it is not cited, and thus unable to verify the claims being made (WP:V). Happyme22 (talk) 05:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- Weak Keep per number of ghits although I'm not sure how many of them may be wiki mirrors and such and I've only searched in english. The fact that the article has existed for 2 years without substantial improvement is worrying but, that in and of itself is not deletion criteria. Jasynnash2 (talk) 10:58, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- Comment "Ali Faik Zaghloul" -wikipedia = 7 hits with "any language" selected in the Advanced Search. Jeepday (talk) 21:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
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- Note: the Arabic language does not use the roman script, so this is not surprising. Whether for better or worse, Arabic-language radio announcers of yesteryear do not have excellent coverage on websites using latin-based scripts. Let's defer to our Egypt-based editors on this and seek their input--we do have a lot of them. Badagnani (talk) 02:38, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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- I concur. --InDeBiz1 Review me! / Talk to me! 22:39, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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- Note: the Arabic language does not use the roman script, so this is not surprising. Whether for better or worse, Arabic-language radio announcers of yesteryear do not have excellent coverage on websites using latin-based scripts. Let's defer to our Egypt-based editors on this and seek their input--we do have a lot of them. Badagnani (talk) 02:38, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Egypt-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 22:23, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 22:23, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Comment Ghits for "علي فايق زغلول" -wikipedia = 136 results. I may be mistaken but most appear to be forums or blogs. Jeepday (talk) 12:02, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
- Delete as non-notable (and) without sources. –thedemonhog talk • edits 21:57, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 08:35, 8 June 2008 (UTC)--Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 08:35, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Middle East-related deletion discussions. —Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 08:35, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
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- Comment. I'm relisting this and adding it to the more general Middle East deletion sorting list in the hopes that we get some more feedback from knowledgeable folks (at this point anyone who reads Arabic could provide some insight). I was on the verge of closing this as delete because we simply don't have sources right now so the article fails WP:V, but we're operating in the dark and it won't hurt to give this another 5-7 days to see if someone can shed some light on this gentleman.--Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 08:35, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
