Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ja'afar Touqan

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The result was keep. Anas ^talk? 11:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ja'afar Touqan

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This article fails WP:BIO. I found nothing from the 130 Google Search results. I even tried searching using Arabic and, while there were considerably more results, all I found were two news articles just mentioning his name. Anas ^talk? 00:19, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

• Keep if assertions in article are true, then the subject does not fail WP:BIO at all, so this is a WP:V question, not a WP:NN question. No reason to think this is a hoax, and article has never been tagged with verify, so just tag it for verification. Capmango 05:12, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
  • This is definitely not a hoax; he was mentioned in two newspapers. The issue is that he doesn't meet any criteria of WP:BIO, IMO, and those that he might seem to, he doesn't. The award he received is not a "significant recognized" award, for example. —Anas ^talk? 10:59, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep If there is documentation of the design of the buildings, he would be notable. So add it,. don;t just talk about it.DGG 00:46, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 07:26, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Middle East-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 07:28, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Doesn't meet WP:BIO. ¿SFGiДnts! ^{¿Complain! ¿Analyze! ¿Review!} 02:17, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep tagged with verification template. No need to delete, per Capmango Giggy _U^CP 04:24, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Looks like he meets WP:BIO - I tried a few different spelling combinations and came up with three online references in English [1], [2] and [3] which I have also added to the article. I think the problem is that this guys name has been transliterated into English in several different ways - I tried Ja'afar, Ja afar, Jaafar and Jafar - with varying results. However, all the sites I saw (not including wikimirrors) report that he is the bee's knees of Jordanian architects so he deserves an article just like Frank Lloyd Wright :) Paxse 10:42, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

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