Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al-Azhar University – Doha


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The result was delete. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 01:04, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Al-Azhar University – Doha

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Fails Verifiability. I have been unable to find any sources that confirm that this university exists, other than those that appear to be derived from Wikipedia. Should not be confused with Al-Azhar University in Cairo or Al-Azhar University – Gaza. The external link in the article appears to refer to the University in Cairo (based on Google Translate, also it has the .eg top-level domain for Egypt). The university is not mentioned in Doha or in Education in Qatar, and there are no significant incoming links. A Google translation of the corresponding Arabic Wikipedia article indicates that this has essentially the same text and has no additional sources. I found nothing useful with a normal Google search, nor with Google News, Google News Archive, Google Books or Google Scholar. There has been no response to my note on the talk page for nearly eight months. Verbcatcher (talk) 06:28, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Verbcatcher (talk) 06:48, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Verbcatcher (talk) 06:48, 29 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete - I tried a thorough search of google, google news and google books for any references to an Al-Azhar University in Doha, Qatar. That search only turned up duplicate copies of the Wikipedia article, multiple references to the Al-Azhar Universities in Cairo and Gaza and not much else. It would appear that this may indeed be a candidate for G3 hoax deletion. The only reference ever entered into the article specifies, at least by my reading, the Cairo Univeristy; The student of the Faculty of Medicine of Al-Azhar for Boys won the first place in the competition of the social gathering of social researches at the level of the Egyptian universities on the subject of human rights associations and its role in the advancement of society and the student received a financial award and certificate of appreciation and shield of participation which would be a reference to Al-Azhar University-Faculty of Medicine for Boys in Cairo. Mr rnddude (talk) 11:07, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete we lack any evidence that this project has actually come into being.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:09, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons mentioned above. There's no evidence we know of which proves that this university exists, and the only reference cited in the article doesn't mention Qatar or Doha anywhere. Elspamo4 (talk) 17:42, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete if existence of this institution can not be confirmed. Ping me if that changes. Carrite (talk) 15:16, 5 October 2017 (UTC)


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