Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cyrus Toulabi


 * 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. JForget 21:36, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Cyrus Toulabi

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According to the Wikipedia Policy on Biographies of living persons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#People_who_are_relatively_unknown): "Wikipedia is not a newspaper. The bare fact that someone has been in the news does not in itself imply that they should be the subject of an encyclopedia entry. Where a person is mentioned by name in a Wikipedia article about a larger subject, but essentially remains a low-profile individual, we should generally avoid having an article on them." Billrogerson (talk) 15:38, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete. Seems like a decent article, but notability is questionable. Maybe the article subject will later be more notable, but as of now... WildHorsesPulled (talk) 15:42, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree. 130.126.71.229 (talk) 15:58, 13 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment. It seems as if this article was created by the individual himself as a way of promoting his image, akin to an online resume. Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, not a method for self promotion.  Users should not create pages for themselves to be like personal websites. Billrogerson (talk) 16:43, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Not sufficiently notable. Most of the article is unreferenced and about things he made up one day. Apart from the one award, there doesn't seem to be anything else noteworthy about this person. --Pontificalibus (talk) 16:49, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep : Notable award, the article should be trimmed and better sourced but AfD is not cleanup. -- Cycl o pia -  talk  17:07, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is a puff piece and the only remote claim of notability is the award. However, awards to students are in no way a guarantee of notability, or we would have articles on every single spelling bee winner. Local papers often write up kids who are, for example, National Merit Semifinalists and Finalists, but this does not entitle that child to an article. Not even winning the Westinghouse Science Talent Search gets somebody an article. Abductive  (reasoning) 18:05, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete A high school student puts video programs on at the high school and on Youtube. Some of his work received a high school recognition at a national level, and was given some degree of newspaper coverage. This does not appear to satisfy WP:BIO. A National Merit Scholar, winners of youth talent competitions or national youth chess tournaments and many high school athletes get this much recognition and are not considered notable for it. Edison (talk) 18:37, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. The claim to notability is too weak in this article. Kevin (talk) 21:24, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I find no reliable sources outside of Chicago for this subject. This is an international encyclopedia.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 03:27, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Coverage insufficient to establish notability; award not of sufficient importance. Subject not notable, at least right now.  Nice tie though. --CooperDB (talk) 17:28, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.