Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Yeroushalmi


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:22, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

David Yeroushalmi

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NOTE: This Israeli History Professor is an expert on Jews in Iran, and not to be confused with David Yerushalmi, an American lawyer. Rd232 talk 09:43, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Promotional article, with weasel words (calling him an "expert"?). There seems to be very little written about this guy, but what has been written about him indicates that his views are far more extreme than this tersely-written stub would indicate: . Being controversial and/or extremist is not in itself a reason not to have an article about somebody. However, if he were truly notable, at least one reliable source would have commented on him by now. As far as I can tell, the Southern Poverty Law Center hasn't written anything about this guy. At all. And neither has the Anti-Defamation League. If he were truly notable, at least one of these organizations would have taken notice of him by now, due to the fact that the views he endorses are the kind of views the SPLC and ADL (as well as most people) find repugnant. Another red flag is that this article hasn't been edited at all in nearly 10 months. If he were notable, you'd think someone on Wikipedia would make an effort at improving his article. Stonemason89 (talk) 00:39, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Not being edited doesn't mean much. Many articles on notable people don't get edited much. Also, as I've noted above now, the links you provide relate to a different person with a similar name. Rd232 talk 09:45, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Whoooops! What are the chances of that...? Anyway, while it's now clear that this David Yeroushalmi is not the same as that David Yerushalmi, I still don't think either one of them is notable. Stonemason89 (talk) 14:00, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Probably. I've created Emrānī, the poet who is the subject of Yeroushalmi's book. I guess there's no reason to keep this article; he doesn't meet WP:PROF as far as I can see. Rd232 talk 14:55, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
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 * comment, I'm not sure a strong case can be made for keeping this one -- citation counts seem low. But: be sure to check under David Yerushalmi.  Nomoskedasticity (talk) 17:17, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Y'know I can't remember why I created the article; I think it was a naming issue - that the guy was popping up under variant spellings and I thought it would help to have an article so they're linked. Obviously I thought he was notable enough, but I don't recall details. Rd232 talk 06:35, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I do recall that at the time his name came up in relation to another article, and was wikilinked from there. But now nothing links here, so it must have been deleted at some point. Rd232 talk 09:33, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.

Comment - Couldn't you speedy this with a since the only things anyone else added are a  and an AFD notice? Abby Kelleyite (talk) 00:05, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I guess it wasn't clear that the article creator (me) couldn't remember why he was supposed to be notable. Delete. Rd232 talk 00:48, 31 August 2010 (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.