Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ali khasawneh


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The result was   delete. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:53, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Ali khasawneh

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This person fails WP:GNG as well as WP:BASIC biographical criteria for notability. No claim to notability is made at all. JFHJr (㊟) 05:58, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Michaelzeng7 (talk) 01:18, 2 March 2013 (UTC)




 * Delete - promotional. And not even at the correct title! Deb (talk) 19:19, 3 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment - I've moved this article to the correct title but its content hardly seems promotional. Khasawneh appears to have been a fairly prominent individual:
 * "Top: Jordan has enormous potential for tourism. Historical sites like Petra are already earning foreign currency. Left: Ali Khasawneh, one of the men behind Jordan's development. Right: A handful of salt crystals from the Dead Sea - a valuable export of the future." (New Civil Engineer, 1978)
 * "But Ali Khasawneh, chairman and managing director of The Arab Potash Company told New Scientist recently "The Israelis will suffer more than us if the canal is built because they have more projects on the Dead Sea."" (The New Scientist, 1983)
 * "Agreement was reached with a KFAED delegation visiting Amman, APC's chairman and general manager Ali Khasawneh has told the Qatar News Agency." (MEED, 1978)
 * "December 11: 0800 Visit Potash Project. Mr Ali Khasawneh, president, Arab Potash Co.; Ed Harrell and Tom Pearson, USAID/Jordan to accompany." (U.S. House of Representatives Staff Study Mission, 1978)
 * "The Amman based Arab Mining Company has increased its participation to maintain its 25 per cent holding. Financing for APC's $ 450 million Dead Sea potash scheme is almost complete, chairman Ali Khasawneh says." (MEED, 1978-1979)
 * "The chairman and general manager of the Arab Potash Company (APC) Ali Khasawneh says the finance package for the $ 420 million project has been completed. The equity capital has risen to $208 million - 45 per cent of the total cost. The government owns 51 per cent and the remainder is divided between the Amman based Arab Mining Company, the Jeddah based Islamic Development Bank and the seven countries which helped to set up APC..." (MEED, 1979)
 * "The Arab Potash Company's (APC's) chairman and general manager, Ali Khasawneh, who is to visit Baghdad, will discuss with Finance Ministry officials the payment of Iraq's $ 10 million share in APC." (MEED, 1979)
 * "In the wake of His Majesty King Hussein's talks with Chinese leaders during his recent visit to the People's Republic of China, the Arab Potash Company (APC) will increase its exports of Jordanian potash to China to 60,000 tonnes for this year, according to APC Director Ali Khasawneh. Mr. Khasawneh revealed that APC makes a profit of $10 per tonne when selling potash to India and China. "That's why APC has drawn up plans to sell nearly 75 per cent of its total potash production to far eastern countries," Mr. Khasawneh said. Jordan sells potash to..." (Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1984)
 * "Mr. Ali Khasawneh, managing director of the Kuwait Oil Tanker Co. (UK) Ltd., speaking at the Conference organised by the Bilbao International Fair in June said that in future the independent tanker owner could only survive with the help of a state subsidy. In his view no existing private Arab tanker owner, for example, could hope to maintain an economically viable operation because..." (Fairplay, 1975)


 * A search in Arabic might be helpful. —  C M B J   06:50, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The subject's statements about other things in the capacity of a spokesman does not bear on his own notability. I've added an Arabic language search link above. I searched it WP:BEFORE nominating. The results are, well, خرى ... JFHJr (㊟) 05:20, 9 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete. No biographical coverage in the sources. The page is an orphan. There is no corresponding native language article. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:43, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
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