Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chaim Yitzchok Cohen


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The result was   delete. JohnCD (talk) 17:51, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Chaim Yitzchok Cohen

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This article is about a Chabad rabbi in the UK. I could find no substantial evidence for him outside of internal Chabad documents--and even the internal evidence is not very strong. This was deprodded with the note "well known Rabbi involved in Jewish studies in the UK", but no additional sources were provided. If the discussion here establishes a substantial consensus that he is notable by virtue of his position within the organization, I will be happy to withdraw this nomination. But as far as I can determine, he doesn't pass WP:BIO or WP:GNG. Arxiloxos (talk) 20:35, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * This reveals your antismitism. If a Rabbi is associated with a Chabad in UK, this automatically shows notenoteworthy. Not every notable person has huge google links like Obama.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.194.207.213 (talk) 03:54, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * That's not a constructive way to start this discussion, and I trust that future discussion will steer clear of further personal attacks. Sticking to the merits: we have lots of articles about rabbis, but these are generally rabbis with some indication of notability in the Wikipedia sense.  I've tried hard to find acceptable sources about Rabbi Cohen, but outside of his own website I've found very little. I couldn't find him at the official website for Chabad Lubavitch UK, http://www.chabad.org.uk/ .  The chabad.info link is a group photograph.   No other Wikipedia articles appear to mention him.  Google has less than 30 hits for his name, and none of them appear to be independent reliable sources about him. --Arxiloxos (talk) 05:29, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Keep' the article as chabad.info established notability. Rabbis don't get huge media attention so consider chabad links. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.194.207.213 (talk) 03:57, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete Insufficient sources (if any). Xxanthippe (talk) 06:20, 2 March 2014 (UTC).
 * Delete This is non-notable. How does Chabad association show notability? There are hundreds of Chabad chapters, and there must be hundreds of associated rabbis. Not every one is notable. Origamite (talk) 17:17, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete -- As far as I can make out, Chabab is a Jewish denomination, probably a small one, possibly with just one British synagogue of which he is pastor. The pastor of a single synagogue is unlikely to be notable, even if he may speak at Europe-wide denominational conferences.  I am not helped by the website being in Hebrew, which I do not read. Peterkingiron (talk) 19:14, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete No sign of notability to pass WP:BIO.--Iniciativass (talk) 07:46, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. There are many such WP articles on rabbis that have no WP:RS and, consequently no evidence of notability. This is one of them. Agricola44 (talk) 18:04, 3 March 2014 (UTC).
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