Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Association for the Research of Anatolian Folk Beliefs


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The result was delete faithless   (speak)  02:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Association for the Research of Anatolian Folk Beliefs

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Fails to establish notability through use of reliable sources. Wizardman 18:34, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - non-notable and rather obscure organization. —TreasuryTag talk contribs  19:08, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - per WP:N. ArcAngel (talk) 20:49, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - It appears to be a small, but serious, academic association, and so it may be worthy of inclusion, hence keep. But there are no sources that say that it actually is serious and academic, hence weak keep. (Google finds sources in Turkish, which i, unfortunately, cannot read.) --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 21:08, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Turkey-related deletion discussions.   —Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 21:12, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Turkey-related deletion discussions.   —Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 21:12, 3 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Their journal is held only in one US library (Harvard) . Even given that it is published in Turkish, there are more American libraries collecting Turkish systematically than that. Not even the Library of Congress has it. Not even the British Library. DGG (talk) 01:55, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment The journal (Kırkbudak: Anadolu Halk İnançları Araştırmaları) is only informally linked to AHAD, which, although composed mainly of academics, may be primarily an advocacy group. The article creator, Aykan Erdemir, is one of the board members of AHAD, making this a case of conflict of interest; he is also Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Deputy Dean of the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University. The coverage on Turkish web pages is not overwhelming; all I can find is a few statements that Aykan Erdemir is a board member. --Lambiam 07:48, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete per lack of importance as indicated by the findings of DGG and Lambiam. Jfire (talk) 15:30, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete From what I was able to find, this is an obscure and non notable subject. --Stormbay (talk) 03:47, 6 March 2008 (UTC)


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