Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hamit Zübeyir Koşay


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Mediran  ( t  •  c ) 10:03, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Hamit Zübeyir Koşay

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Tagged for poor sourcing and notability for 5 years Boleyn (talk) 16:11, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Turkey-related deletion discussions. Takabeg (talk) 07:23, 23 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep. Online sourcing for someone who retired over forty years ago, has been dead for nearly thirty, seems in his lifetime to have been as important an administrator as a scholar (in several different, if loosely related, fields), and mostly wrote in Turkish, is not likely to be entirely easy. However, one would generally assume that someone who the Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia describes as "arguably the most important figure in the development of Turkish archaeology in the twentieth century, apart from Ataturk" would be notable, and searches using a slightly different version of his middle name  or omitting it altogether  seem to get results which searching on the article title misses. PWilkinson (talk) 21:00, 19 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep. You touch the "books" button and you find many of his books. It is our fault that we have not been able to write more and better on this notable scholar. Thanks. --E4024 (talk) 23:01, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
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