Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdul Rasul Zarrin


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The result was   delete. Mojo Hand (talk) 04:11, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Abdul Rasul Zarrin

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Person may exist but sources are blogs and forums with repetition of same comparison between Zarrin and Kyle. A number of sources are in Non-English language. Cannot see any independent sources that verify claims being made. Londonclanger (talk) 21:10, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The Iranian state is a military dictatorship and predicates its power upon mythologizing military "heroes" on frequently dubious merits. See e.g. etc. Exceptional claims require exceptional sources. Yet all references on this article are worthless state-propaganda sources and user-generated forums posts.--Anders Feder (talk) 21:39, 25 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete per Anders Feder.--Tomandjerry211 (alt) (talk) 21:53, 25 July 2015 (UTC)--Tomandjerry211 (alt) (talk) 21:53, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. &mdash;&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·E·C) 22:12, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. &mdash;&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·E·C) 22:12, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. &mdash;&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·E·C) 22:12, 25 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete - given the subject (of snipers) often receives fairly wide coverage in the popular media I'd have expected to find something about him fairly easily at least (even despite not being from a Western / English speaking nation). There is a bit in low quality web sources (Instagram, Facebook, blogs etc) but nothing I think would qualify as WP:RS. Google books didn't reveal any coverage in dead tree sources either. As such as near as I can tell the subject is not notable per WP:GNG. Given the issues highlighted by Anders Feder above I'd have to question whether the sources that do exist are accurate at any rate. Anotherclown (talk) 23:40, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. With no doubt, this entry is a propaganda by the Iranian government and should be deleted. Esmatly (talk) 20:00, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete This article typifies Iranian state propaganda. There would most certainly be a plethora of reliable sources (or at least some) if the claims were even partly true. Elspamo4 (talk) 05:58, 29 July 2015 (UTC)


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