Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Asrat Woldeyes

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The result of the debate was: KEEP but REWRITE (including VFD nominator). Will add cleanup tag pending the invention of a pertinent rewrite tag (I don't think the current rewrite applies to the outcome of the below discussion)... Tomer TALK 07:28, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Asrat Woldeyes
Not-notable. Only notability assertion here is that his Father was killed during the Mussolini occupation of Ethipia. Tragically many Ethiopians have Fathers killed during the Mussoloni occupation. Delete. Cje 13:00, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Agreed. Groeck 15:27, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Vote changed to Rewrite, assuming comment below is correct and the person mentioned in referenced articles is the same. Groeck 22:50, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, only one of countless others in the same terrible circumstance... so I say to delete this, unless he turns out to be a leader of a freedom-fighting group or something. GarrettTalk 15:47, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Rewrite, now that notability has been established. GarrettTalk 03:04, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. *drew 00:49, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Changed my vote to Rewrite based on Llywrch's argument. *drew 23:31, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. For me, this is a hard decision. On one hand, as it stands this article fails to establish importance -- it does mention that his grandfather was a Kegnazmatch, an honorific in Ethiopian feudal society equivalent to a baron, yet the external link given does not resolve & the paragraph that we have fails to establish notability. (Thousands of Ethiopian intelligentsia -- in this case, people who could read & write -- were murdered by Gaziani during occupation.) On the other hand, however, a Google search found this and this which show that he was the foremost physician in Ethiopia, a Professor of Medicine, & a political figure who was jailed by the Derg. Should this article be rewritten to establish notability, or even with these facts does Asrat fail the test? -- llywrch 20:42, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Change to Keep  Rewrite on basis of information provided by llywrch Cje 19:32, 30 August 2005 (UTC)


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