Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bilal Zubedi


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 03:53, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Bilal Zubedi

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Lack of notability. He has only written one book. I would have put but it was contested. Joe407 (talk) 07:20, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP:BIO. Ironholds (talk) 13:08, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello Joe407, I hope this is the deletion discussion page for teh article Bilal Zubedi. I wanted to enquire why this page has been nominated for speedy deletion. It should stay on because the individual is an author who has a book published and selling out there. It would be very kind of you to reconsider the act of deleting this article because through wikipedia more people can access information about the author. Please let me know your reasons and what can be done.I would be grateful for your assitance in saving this page and letting it stay. (OTRTA (talk) 15:46, 3 September 2009 (UTC))

You want to delete the page because the author has written one book. Is there a criteria to how many books an author must have written to have a page on wikipedia."Lack of notability", the author will be noted more with a wiki page. Please let the page stay on. Thank You. (Bj786 (talk) 15:55, 3 September 2009 (UTC)).
 * No, the nominator is saying that while he has written one book, this isn't sufficient notability. Ironholds (talk) 23:22, 3 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Correct Ironholds. Please read WP:BIO.  In short it says that an article about a person must domonstrate that the person is a notable (an important) personality.  There are many ways that notability can be established.  A person with important achivements such as Nelson Mandela, even if he had only one book, would deserve an article.  This is due to his acheivements, not due to his book.  A different path to notability is a person who has a number of books that have sold lots of copies.  Here, his notability is that he is an author.  For example, Tom Wolfe. I hope this clarified things.  Joe407 (talk) 05:57, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Isn't this just a free site where anything can be added and edited. I would still ask you to reconsider for one article won't hurt. Thank You (OTRTA (talk) 12:07, 6 September 2009 (UTC))
 * No, it isn't. We have standards, and articles that don't fulfil those standards will be deleted. We can't let one article through, because if we let one article through there's no logical reason why the next article shouldn't be let through, and the next, making our standards completely useless. Ironholds (talk) 12:17, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
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