Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdullah M. Farah


 * 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 delete.  Majorly  (o rly?) 17:26, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Abdullah M. Farah

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This is a vanity page about a non notable person Tony 23:51, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Well, there are several awards that this person has won, but I am not familiar with them and cannot assess whether this person is notable. Could someone please elaborate or link on the article to a site that proves this person's notability? If it turns out that this person is not so obscure then I am hesitant to vote delete. Sean MD80 talk 00:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment I'm adding the following comments for background. The persons name appears to be Abdullahi, not Abdullah as stated in the article title. The story in the article is not made up, since Google found some hits to back up the claims of winning awards:


 * http://www.coppin.edu/finearts/newsletter.asp?action=article&author=jwillner&story=20040723174532
 * http://www.scholastic.com/artandwritingawards/pressreleases/2005/05_0408-National_Release.htm
 * http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/aboutmsde/pride/applause/
 * http://www.presidentialscholars.org/scholars_state2.asp?school_state=MD&offset=15
 * http://www.artsawards.org/alumni/awardee05/PSA/index.cfm
 * http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:fiSNZwup1soJ:www.ed.gov/programs/psp/2005/yearbook.pdf+%22abdullahi+farah%22+gold+owings&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us

I just wanted to eliminate fruitless searching in Google for the wrong name, for those looking for notability. Even so, despite the fact that he has won academic awards, there's an issue if this is enough to qualify for WP:BIO requirements. - Itsfullofstars 00:16, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I added some of the above sources to the article. Complicating matters in searching for notability is that he seems sometimes prefers to go by the nickname "Abdi". .  He seems to be an athlete as well as having artistic talent, although that is likely to have little bearing on whether the article is kept. - Itsfullofstars 02:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Weak Delete: It kind of seems like this is an article about a particularly good student. Though it has too many notable national awards for me to ignore, do we then create articles on winners of the annual NG Geography Bee or the other winners listed alongside this one in the sources? It would only be fair, but the whole thing would be a collection of, to me, less than important knowledge. You can see my conundrum. One solution would be to create an article on the awards themselves, and have lists of winners which would contain a very brief summary of all that is notable (And besides, almost or all of what is important about this article is that they the won the award). Sean MD80 talk 02:51, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Weak Delete:This person should be allowed to have it's own article the awards he won are very prestigious regarding the platform he's in. I made a typo and missed the i for Abdullahi which would explain when Tony did a background check he couldn't find anything on him, i think the article should stay and be expanded a bit RoboRanks 03:22, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm a bit confused. Did RoboRanks really mean to say Keep? - Itsfullofstars 04:00, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Weak delete as this is a promising young artist, but I don't think the level of awards he's won are especially notable. --Dhartung | Talk 04:17, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes Lol i ment keepRoboRanks 04:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * weak delete unless some information is added about the N of the things he won the awards for.DGG 05:51, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


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