Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdullah IV Al-Sabah


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The result was   delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 03:11, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Abdullah IV Al-Sabah

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Notability Dumaka (talk) 22:34, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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 * Comment -- Conversions from Islam are unusual, becuase sharia law prescribes the death penalty for apostacy. In this case there seems to be a question of veracity.  Furthermore, publicising conversions is undesirable in many cases, because it lays the subject open to a greater risk of being murdered.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:11, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Northamerica1000(talk) 19:58, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. I've searched in English and Arabic and the cited La Stampa article is the only reliable source I can find. The video interview where this guy discusses his conversion seems to have been broadcast on an Arabic Christian satellite channel called al-Haqiqa, which doesn't seem very well-known or reliable. So, definitely spike it.
 * By the by (this being my own instinct and not part of my rationale), if this is in fact the clip, the guy, who claims to be a Kuwaiti prince and the son of an ambassador to the UK, doesn't sound like a native Arabic speaker to me. —Neil 20:48, 26 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete While the fact that the man is a fraudster (and he is, membership of Kuwait's royal family is public record, and this hasn't come up in any Arabic media) doesn't discount this article being notable, the fact that there are only two sources does. Two mentions of some nut claiming to be a prince doesn't satisfy WP:GNG. MezzoMezzo (talk) 04:05, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
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