Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ghorban Tourani

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The result of the debate was KEEP. — JIP | Talk 15:47, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ghorban Tourani

Recently-ish killed Christian minister in Iran. I speedied this originally as there was no assertion of notability - now there is (questionable) notability asserted per some media attention. Google pulls 47 hits, just 2 with quotes for Ghorban Tourani - Ghorban Tori pulls more. But with due respect, every murder victim is not inherrently notable - while this case may be slightly different, I do not believe it is enough. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 10:02, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• Not delete 1) Notability - Google actually scores for "Ghorban Tori" 633 hits[1], a search including his middle name "Ghorban Dordi Tourani" further 35[2] (for "Ghorban Tourani" alone admittedly only 2 dt a initially publicised misspelling) 2) International importance - The current regime in Iran has a history of persecuting the Christian minorities, but had ceased being very aggressive about it after a murder wave in the mid nineties. This has been now under the new president rapidly worsened. His murder happened to co-incide with a new attempt by the EU to engage Iran on Human Rights, was widely reported and led to diplomatic protests. 3) Importance for Iranian/Middle Eastern Church - huge. The first Turkmen martyr amongst other things. In summary: the man is notable and important enough to warrant an entry unless Wikipedia wants to be centred on what and who is important in the West. Refdoc 10:25, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Further comment: The google count is still rising (now at 677 for "Ghorban Tori" and 41 for "Ghorban Dordi Tourani".Refdoc 07:42, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Yet more comment: The google count for "Ghorban Tori" is today 12.700. Do not tell me that this is not the result of some notability. Refdoc 22:27, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Further comment: There is something like systematic bias [3]operating here - a Iranian internal news is going to be of little newsworthiness outside and subsequently not easily found in search engines like Google. Christians in Iran are ignored/persecuted minority - furtther pushing such news down the list of priorities. In view of these two points I would think that any internal Iranian news which "made google news" - even if limited - is notable by definition. Further - it made secular news papers like the Swedish Dagen[4]. Refdoc 16:20, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

• Relisting due to insufficient votes. - Mailer Diablo 13:34, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:13, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Christian martyr. Metarhyme 17:07, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep notable. -- MisterHand 17:15, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep notable enough for me Jcuk 18:18, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Google News has only 6 news reports, all in Christian news outlets. Doesn't seem to have attracted the attention of any MSM publication. howcheng {chat} 18:59, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

• Merge into Christians in Iran - not notable by himself, but the chain of events that led to his death is notable in the context of governmental persecution of non-Islamic people. B.Wind 19:02, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep notable.  Grue  21:14, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep notable obviously - not sure whether I need to relist my vote, but it stays unchanged Refdoc 09:32, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

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.