Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elham Asghari


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) – Davey 2010 •  (talk)  15:17, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Elham Asghari

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 * Last year, talking to the media, a 32-year old Iranian girl claimed to have broken the record of swimming in the Iranian international waters while wearing an odd swimsuit. However, the Ministry of Sports in the government of Ahmadinejad refused to register this athletic achievement in the national records because they do not officially recognize any such thing as women’s swimming costume.
 * Publishing a video, "Elham Sadat Asghari" had claimed to have swum while wearing a cloak, scarf and wetsuit but now, after a year, the authorities of the Ministry of Sports have disclosed the fact that she had not put on any cloak and scarf and had lied to the reporters, playing the victim and seeking fame. Elham Asghari lied to the whole world and deceived everyone to become famous.
 * Now, it has also turned out that no official observer was accompanying Asghari when she was swimming, thus making it totally impossible to register such a record. However, by the help of "Marzieh Akbar Abadi", one of the directors of the Ministry of Sports in the government of Ahmadinejad, Elham Asghari had lied to the world media to promote the Islamic hijab. Meanwhile, the reporter who had produced a video of swimming of Elham Asghari wearing an Islamic swimsuit is the only person who has been collecting evidence in the past year to prove the lies told by Elham Asghari and now, he has succeeded in finding evidence which proves all of Elham’s lies in addition to disclosing about her in the Iranian media. Now, he has the video of swimming of Elham Asghari which has not been published in any media yet. Although Asghari had claimed to have worn a heavy suit with cloak and scarf while swimming in order to register a record, this video shows that she had lied and she had no cloak and scarf and swam just like an ordinary swimmer.
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Thanks-- Darafsh Kaviyani (Talk) 00:01, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions.  Jinkinson   talk to me  00:20, 2 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep - and develop the article with the new sources. --Why should I have a User Name? (talk) 05:03, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep - notability seems weak but the subject is connected to an important issue, women's rights under Islam and in Iran, so it would be disappointing to loose the article. Also, the AfD proposer has not presented a valid argument for deletion of the article. The issues the proposer raises are all to do with content - and in fact the points raised actually suggest the subject has some notability at least in an Iranian context. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 15:34, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:43, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep as per coverage in western sources (I can't read the Iranian sources). Stuartyeates (talk) 07:15, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
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