Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniyal Alghazzawi


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The result was   delete and Wp:SALT. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:11, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Daniyal Alghazzawi

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This is the third time this article has been created. It has been nominated for speedy twice for notability. For me, it fails to meet WP:GNG. Perhaps we can rest this finally. Thanks. SarahStierch (talk) 17:40, 14 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete (and Salt) - The author of the article seems to misunderstand why their article is being repeatedly deleted, unfortunately. They claim he meets WP:NPROF because he is chairperson of a university department. However, he is described elsewhere as 'Head of Information Systems', which is not the same as being awarded a senior 'Chair' post. Subject is only an Associate Professor. He seems to be doing a good job but not currently setting the academic world alight. There do not seem to be any in-depth, reliable news sources for him to pass WP:GNG at present. Sionk (talk) 18:33, 14 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Perhaps we can move the article to the author's userspace to work on until some notable proof comes up? Warn them that they will be blocked if they continue to add it back before it is ready. My advice to use AfC was ignored. heather walls (talk) 21:07, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete and Salt - Agree with Sarah that this needs to go away. Strongly disagree with heather that it should be userspaced until references are found.  This is not a case of unfound references.  Sorry for the lack of "good faith", but I find it hard to maintain good faith when the author has shown bad faith by misrepresenting the subject of the article.  The truth of the matter is, he is NOT the chair of an academic department; instead he is performing a tech job that doesn't necessarily even require a degree.  If he is using his time to do a tech job for the university, it is doubtful he is even on a career track to full professorship, much less a department chair.  IMO, the article should be deleted and salted and the author should be warned that any attempt to resubmit it will have consequences. Gtwfan52 (talk) 01:05, 15 August 2012 (UTC),
 * I'm not sure why it's necessary to strongly disagree with a lighthearted question. I have no attachment to anyone having a Wikipedia article, and I suppose if authors refuse to comply with basic processes then other measures might be needed. heather walls (talk) 19:13, 15 August 2012 (UTC)


 * besides articles in some low quality journals,two books, one of which is a book chapter only and the second of which is not in WorldCat. A book chapter listed as a book is something I have not seen here before.  DGG ( talk ) 01:26, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete, salt, nuke from orbit, whatever necessary to prevent the continued recreation of a textbook vanity article. MikeWazowski (talk) 02:16, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
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 * Delete. The Department of Information Systems that he is listed as heading appears to be a real academic department — here is its list of faculty members — but department chair is far below the requirements of WP:PROF for notability as an academic administrator, which really only applies to heading an entire university. The criterion in #C5 for "named chairs" is also inapplicable; it is for an appointment at a level that is typically considered a step above full professorship, and he is either assistant or associate (sources differ). His citation counts in Google scholar are too low for #C1, and there seems to be no evidence that he passes any other of the WP:PROF criteria. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:32, 15 August 2012 (UTC)


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