Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rebar Jaff

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 DELETE. Owen× ☎ 19:37, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rebar Jaff

According to the article, Rebar Jaff is a widely published reporter whose main subject is Kurdistan and the Kurdish people. A Google search for "Rebar Jaff" comes up with 41 hits, 9 of which are unique distributed over 3 websites. Pilatus 03:03, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

• Comment - The Google hits for this reporter show that he has published in Kurdistan. It is possible that his articles might not be online, but rather in print only papers. ERcheck 03:23, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Possibly. But the article also says that the author has worked for a number of Middle-Eastern newspapers and "Europe and US-based Internet news websites". Newspaper reporters and columnists tend to clock up a huge number of hits in Google. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, who works for the Independent {UK), has more than 500000. It could be that none of the newspapers that Rebar Jaff works for has an online edition (or uses Latin script, the wealthy bit of Kurdistan is in Iraq and Arabic script is used there, IIRC), or it could be that this is vanity. As usual, the proof that this isn't vanity is up to the editor who put the article up. Pilatus 03:52, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
  • The IP address the article was edited from is assigned to the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. Vanity, vanity of vanities. Pilatus 03:58, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: This is no assertion of worth either way of the journalist's work, but anyone doing his job satisfactorily is, by definition, not remarkable. The article seems somewhat like a CV. In any case, the reporter is not widely discussed. Geogre 03:52, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per Geogre. KillerChihuahua 16:10, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Call it the "Average Journalist"" standard. --Calton | Talk 00:00, 28 November 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.