Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adel Iskandar


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The result was   keep. — A itias  //  discussion  19:27, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Adel_Iskandar
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Subject does not meet any WP notability criteria Johndowning (talk) 03:45, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep I added two references to show he appears to meet #4 of WP:ACADEMIC, but more references might be needed. --Pontificalibus (talk) 06:52, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  —David Eppstein (talk) 19:01, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Possibly notable as an author. His book Al-Jazeera : how the free Arab news network scooped the world and changed the Middle East  is in 1700 libraries, according to WorldCat, & has been translated into Turkish and Korean. but he is listed as joint author with Mohammed El-Nawawy, who has also written one major book by himself, The Israeli-Egyptian peace process in the reporting of western journalists -- theyare apparently of about equal status.  There are refs from 2 major university sites. As expected, there are major reviews: Political Science Quarterly, Publishers Weekly, Der Spiegel Online, Chicago Tribune, foreign PolicyAssociation --all listed in Google news Archive. As a professor, he's still relatively junior, apparently an assistant professor and would not meet WP:PROF. But the rules for author are very much looser., Possible the GNG guideline is too loose for authors, but there seems to be consensus to use it.  it is. DGG (talk) 05:06, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:08, 16 May 2009 (UTC)


 * He clearly doesn't meet WP:ACADEMIC, I find no evidence at all he's ever been anything more than an Adjunct Professor; an adjunct is someone who is allowed to hang around a department, have faculty privileges at the library and so on, but is only paid on a per-course basis when they are teaching, they are unpaid otherwise. However, he may be notable as an author. Hairhorn (talk) 01:20, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Adjunct can also mean a full-time position that is paid through grants rather than through permanent funding. But that doesn't seem to be the case here. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:43, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. I am not quite sure the subject meets WP:PROF criterion #1 (significant impact in scholarly discipline, broadly construed), because the main author of his book on Al-Jazeera (held by more than 900 major libraries, according to WorldCat) is actually Mohammed El-Nawawy (as noted by DGG). However, I think he meets WP:BIO; news coverage indicates notability.--Eric Yurken (talk) 01:14, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
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