Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yarankash

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 was Keep. Navou 17:18, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yarankash

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No references or sources - most of the google hits are Wiki mirrors. Biography mostly contains his arrest information and execution. Ozgod 14:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete does not meet requirements for N in WP:BIO. Few hits on google and has no real impact on the course of history. Plm209^{(talk to me • contribs)} 14:58, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete: Non-notable, per nom. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 15:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, the governor who he killed would disagree with Plm209. Tempshill 18:02, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

• keep the "non notable" votes above seem to be more like WP: Idontlikeit, and cite no specific wikipedia policy that the article violates. This man appears to be important to history, and has sources to back it up. I see no reason to delete this at all. Barsportsunlimited 19:05, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep If he, as a European, had in 2007 assassinated the mayor of Aleppo, (or the governor of Syria--I'm not sure which is closer), would he get an article? Probably he would. Then it is appropriate here, as notability is ot time-dependent. For one think, even if one believes in the thorough discredited 100 year rule, he cerainly passes) and is in the standard histories in a significant way. DGG 01:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
• Not really a vote, but there are two sources given in the article. He could easily pass with a brief mention in the Zengi article (and Zengi is significant, although it may not be immediately obvious to most people), which is the way things were originally; then someone came along and wrote a little stub about him, and I expanded it. I don't know if the article can get much longer than it is now, but he is mentioned in primary and secondary crusade sources, so he is not totally insignficant. Adam Bishop 02:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment: The article has two references, including an edition of a primary source and a standard work on the crusades by Runciman. Why is the nominator claiming that there are "no references or sources"? Pharamond 05:21, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
• He killed a major political leader and you're saying that he doesn't meet notability? Keep. DS 19:12, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, more important and reliably sourced that pokemon moves. John Vandenberg 20:19, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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