Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bamdad bahar

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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. W.marsh 04:47, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bamdad bahar

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I could not verify this autobiography because there was insufficient reliable third party coverage in the 141 ghits. (The Washington Post article doesn't appear to correlate with the article's contents). MER-C 13:18, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete. I couldn't find any reliable sources discussing this person. According to the article itself, he runs a few non-notable companies, went to university, and once belonged to a moderately good high school band. None of these things meet the notability criteria. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 14:31, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
  • the patents transformed the fuel cell industry ... transformed two major multibillion $ corporations ...—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.251.0.84 (talk • contribs)
  • Can you direct us to the articles that were written about that transformation in reliable sources? They would really help with this decision. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 18:04, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Let me see: Here's one - HYDROGEN POWER:Company Aims to Give Fuel Cells a Little Backbone Voss Science 30 July 1999: 683 DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5428.683

Here's another: http://www.knowledgefoundation.com/sfcbook.html

here's another: http://www.teledyne.com/news/energy.asp; there are actually half a dozen article on Teledyne's news website ...you have to search though it...new products, news releases (in 2000 and 2001)

here's another: (for the music)(tribute featured for Princess Diana) http://www.princess-diana.co.uk/diana-media-song.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bamdadb (talk • contribs) 19:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Reply That's a paper written by Bahar, a song written by Bahar, and a press release directly from the company. What we need is two or three newspaper articles about Bahar himself, and how important he is. Or the book that was written about him and published by a significant publisher. Or two or three magazine articles about Bahar, and how important he is. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 19:50, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

The Science article was written by Voss, the Teledyne items were written by Jason Van Wees (and are still posted some 7 years after the departure), the Princess Diana web site is maintained by a bunch of fans in Germany that have nothing to do with Bahar ... importance is not a metric for wikipedia, it is simply a resource for information ... a reference...the accuracy of the information can not be disputed. There are some really esoteric pages on Wiki...its an information resource... its appropriate to meet someone and then look them up and get an idea who it that you met... A google search will also provide news articles in the Sussex Countian ...independent articles ...a whole series actually.

If you're interested in helping rewrite the notability criteria or the reliable sources criteria, or helping to redefine the verifiability policy, that would affect many more articles than just this one, so this AfD isn't the right place to have that discussion. Here, we're just looking for sources that meet this criteria that would prove that the subject meets this criteria, as they exist now. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:36, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

I read the criteria (which I had not done before). Fair enough..lets delete it. As long as the criteria are applied uniformly and fairly...I am all for it. Do it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.251.0.84 (talk) 22:57, 9 November 2007 (UTC)


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