Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aziz Abdullah Ahmed


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The result was   Withdrawn. Per sources found. (non-admin closure) — Theopolisme   ( talk  )  00:52, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Aziz Abdullah Ahmed

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Unsourced article about a politician. Unable to find coverage/verification online. — Theopolisme   ( talk  )  22:36, 22 February 2013 (UTC) Withdrawn thanks to Phil Bridger's excellent detective work. — Theopolisme   ( talk  )  00:51, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete, I could not find any reliable sources about the subject online either, therefore the article must be deleted per WP:ANYBIO. This maybe an online or an english preference bias, on my part; but without sources to verify content (or the person even having lived), no article can be created.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 16:32, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I suspect that we might have a transcription problem here that makes searching for sources extremely difficult, and the article author hasn't helped by not saying which province of Kurdistan the subject was governor of and when, and not giving a spelling in the Sorani (used for Kurdish) or Arabic alphabets. I've tracked down the subject's son's email address so I'll ask him if he'd like to clarify these details or to lead us to some sources. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:47, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I've heard back from the subject's son, and have made a couple of clarifications to the article based on what he wrote. He doesn't know of any published sources that we could use to establish verifiability and notability. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:02, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Searching for the name in Arabic script I've found this, which confirms that the subject was a member of the Court of Cassation (supreme court) of Iraqi Kurdistan. That position would appear to get him through WP:POLITICIAN criterion 1. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:13, 26 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep per WP:POLITICIAN per reference found by Phil Bridger--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:31, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
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