Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christian Tămaş


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The result was   delete. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:59, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Christian Tămaş

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The article is most likely self-promotional, does not cite any sources, and obsesses over the books that mention Christian Tămaş' name, most of which appears to be the kind where you get featured in exchange for a fee. There is no critical commentary on his contributions to speak of, and a google search comes up with a lot of self-published material and commercial links for his book, but virtually nothing independent on his relative importance or the substance of his scholarship. The only material I was so far able to find outside these mentions is this list, published by Observator Cultural, where a very brief mention is made that one of his books was among several dozens of volumes which received government financing in 2004. The same magazine also once reviewed the first issue of a magazine Tămaş contributed to, and again mentioned his name once. That's about it, therefore failing point 1 of WP:PROF by much, and WP:CREATIVE in its entirety. For all the cruft in the article, the only notable professional association Tămaş is part of is the Writers' Union of Romania - however, it receives anyone who has published a number of books and has filed an application. No awards, no academic position, etc., so there goes the rest of WP:PROF. Oh, and: his works are all published by the same company, Ars Longa - who shares his non-impressive reputation. Dahn (talk) 14:20, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:15, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - this article too is written by Ars Longa. Classic example of self-promotion designed to make one seem notable when substantive evidence of notability is utterly lacking. - Biruitorul Talk 14:53, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete. From looking at Google Books and Google Scholar results I can't find anything that seems to provide more than a passing mention of the subject, and Google News finds mostly stuff about a namesake who plays table tennis and a few passing mentions of this article subject. The only thing that I can find that may be helpful is this article, but that doesn't seem to be enough on its own to show notability. My ability to read Romanian is very limited, coming from guesswork based on knowledge of related languages and general linguistic nous gained from having studied linguistics, so maybe Biruitorul (with whom I find myself surprised to be agreeing) could confirm whether that article gives any hint of possible notability? Phil Bridger (talk) 19:27, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Essentially, it says he'll be at a book-launching event, and then goes on to make some laudatory comments ("an enchanting interlocutor...who philosophizes without false gravity"). - Biruitorul Talk 17:16, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Subject does not meet the inclusion requirements at this time. لenna  vecia  00:10, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * comment It seems like some of his work hasn't been in English has anyone looked for sources in Romanian? JoshuaZ (talk) 22:00, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Reply. My comments above took account of Romanian and other sources, which is why I asked for clarification in one case. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:48, 5 July 2009 (UTC)


 * delete Per remarks by Phil and Biruitorul. JoshuaZ (talk) 21:24, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
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