Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Salah Ahmed Ibrahim

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The result was keep. Renaming should be discussed on the talk page. — Scientizzle 02:04, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Salah Ahmed Ibrahim

Salah Ahmed Ibrahim (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

Prodded once by User:Travellingcari. Removed in February with a summary that refs would be coming and it is still not notable. Ricky81682 (talk) 03:27, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Weak Delete While I acknowledge he died pre-hyper prevalence of internet and that the internet may not have as exhaustive coverage in the Sudan, GScholar is 3 false positives with no coverage of his poetry, the first one in Books could well be him as it refers to a poet, but it's a trivial mention. We don't know enough from the article to know whether he as also the ambassador, although that's doubtful. Pending clarification on this, but it doesn't appear he passes WP:BIO for his published poems TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 03:35, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete No assertation of notability, no verification, no content. I guess that speaks for itself. I don't ever see why people create stubs like this with just one or two lines. If you're going to write a stub, at least put some effort into it. Red Phoenix flame of life...protector of all... 03:36, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment Oooh, an obscure Sudanese poet. These are the most interesting AFDs. I'm not finding a lot, but there are a few hits for "Salah A. Ibrahim" at Google Books that seem to be relevant. It also appears that this guy wrote an article of some sort called "A Tourism in the Poetic Forest of Salah A. Ibrahim", although it sure isn't available anywhere online. User:Azome1 seems long gone, but I hope there's a subject expert somewhere out there who can chime in. Zagalejo^^^ 04:45, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. I won't link-bomb here, but even a cursory Google-books search turns up in several reviews of African literature - including Twentieth-century Literary Movements Dictionary, African Theatre, Encyclopedia of world literature in the 20th century and African Writers at the Microphone. In Sudan Notes and Records (Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, Khartoum University Press, 1963) he is described as follows as "...Sudanese poetry written by the young poets of today. The most important of these poets is Salah Ahmed Ibrahim. In his poetry there is all the yearning, all the frustration of his generation. He writes his poetry with miraculous ease and beauty.". These kind of references don't suggest deletion to me. Mostlyharmless (talk) 05:55, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Ah. I see that his name is also spelled Salah Ahmad Ibrahim. See [1]. I think I'll go with a solid Keep now. Zagalejo^^^ 06:13, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Should we move the page then? His name seems turn up as either. I'm also not yet able to establish whether other uses of the name (ambassador etc.) refer to the same person. Mostlyharmless (talk) 06:23, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Ref'd. A pity there's not more available on this fascinating person. Mostlyharmless (talk) 06:56, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Question, are you saying you're not sure the poet is the ambassador? If not, it shouldn't be cited as such TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 13:34, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't sure, I now am. Mostlyharmless (talk) 23:13, 7 May 2008 (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.