Talk:Imraan Faruque

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This article was nominated for deletion on 1 May 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

[edit] more habits

I recall reading a newspaper article on this guy once that described some of his other habits, does anyone have this? (GoAirForce 19:58, 23 May 2007 (UTC))

The newspaper you are referring to was likely the Collegiate Times, Virginia Tech's newspaper. I think they list back-issues on the website, but they've had server issues when there were too many hits from the tragedy. The site is back up. There are a couple of weasel words in this article. (Community editor 23:18, 23 May 2007 (UTC))

[edit] article for deletion

I have placed a request for the deletion of this article. Upon closer look, this seems to be more like a user page of a current student--sort of like a prank. gnusbiz (talk) 00:02, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

From my response on the AFD page: (included here for completeness) Sorry, I started this page as a class assignment about collaborative online works. We were supposed to add a brief about a regional landmark, celebrity, or icon to Wikipedia. I actually met Imraan once on his pogo stick back when he was a student, then I read about his training schedule in the CT (this is our local newspaper). I tried to add a link to that news article to the page, but I added other links instead. I'm sorry if it was hard to read, but the article is neither a user page nor a prank. Thank you to all the editors after me that helped improve it, I thought they made it better. I would revise it to make it easier to read but it made sense to me when I wrote it. I don't know how to prove that he is no longer a student, perhaps VT graduation records?? I didn't want to add him to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virginia_Tech_alumni. In any event, even if he was, I don't see how that disqualifies his contributions to the UAV field. Upon closer look, I hope you and other editors find it valuable, since it's not a prank but rather a serious article about a town icon. (GoAirForce (talk) 04:49, 2 May 2008 (UTC))