Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mahtab

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 of the debate was keep. JPD (talk) 15:26, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mahtab

This was tagged with {{prod}}, but this would seem to be an encylopedic topic (like Smith and several other family surnames). However, it is in its current condition almost an A1 speedy and unverified. I'm just bringing this discussion here so more eyes can have a look at it. No vote. Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 18:17, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy Delete as A1 per Titoxd. --Aaron 18:21, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, probably speedy, per Titoxd ikh (talk) 18:25, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• KEEP 98,000 google search links Google Search. I agree with Titoxd, this seems like an encyclopedic topic like Smith and other names as seen on Wiki. Madangry 19:55, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom MYSELF (Better? Now stop YELLING!). Smith makes sense as an article, as it is universally accepted as common, and it also serves as a disambiguation page. This does not seem to establish itself that way. (Am I the only one who thought this said Matlab at first?) --Kinu 21:16, 9 February 2006 (UTC); updated Kinu 21:31, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• COMMENT Just because Smith is in English doesn't mean it is Universally accepted as common and furthermore does not also mean that names derived in other languages and VERY common in 3rd world countries are not common simply because they are not in English. The daughter in the Sally Field and Alfred Molina movie Not Without My Daughter was named Mahtab. See cast list on IMDB. Also, if nominating for deletion PLEASE STOP PUTTING "PER NOM" The nominator was a NO VOTE. Madangry 21:23, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Please do not put words in my mouth. My rationale had nothing to do with the fact that Smith is English. Would you feel better if I compared to Gonzalez or Patel or Wang? My vote stands until you can make a stronger argument. --Kinu 21:34, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
    • I did not intend to offend you nor put words in your mouth. Touche for the other names. I'm still a BIT confused as to why you and the nom are comparing this first name with surnames though...if you could clear that up I'd be most appreciative. If Hollywood and Google aren't convincing enough for you that is fine. We will see what the admins think when they see this talk page. Yes? Madangry 22:33, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
      • No worries, and I apologize in turn if I seemed a little curt myself. Anyway... this article actually does look a lot better than when I origianlly saw it. In fact, I'll do a little cleanup myself, just to bring it up to standard and make it more in line with some of the similar name pages. As for the "surname" thing... I actually did think it was one, since I didn't realize from the context on the page that it was a given name. The cleanup helped a lot. :) Oh yeah, keep now that the article is less of a dicdef and is definitely more encyclopedic. --Kinu 05:48, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Added more to article for added notability aside from Google test. Madangry 22:55, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Madangry. -- JJay 05:40, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as improved. Crypticfirefly 06:12, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Madangry. Dr Debug (Talk) 07:06, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep fixed version, tag as {{disambig}}. Stifle 16:28, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as changed. -Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 09:11, 14 February 2006 (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.