Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hasan Bülent Paksoy


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The result was delete. Tone 18:28, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Hasan Bülent Paksoy

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Non-notable historian. I feel like a WP:TNT is appropriate if the article does pass notability guidelines. Willbb234Talk (please &#123;&#123;ping&#125;&#125; me in replies) 16:58, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Superficially, the page appears to be well referenced but on closer examination everything falls apart. A lot of promotional stuff (in fact a borderling WP:G11 situation) and WP:OR here, with various unsubstantiated inferences and claims. Lots of deadlinks with unclear publication details (Refs no. 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 21). Lots of references that are items published by the subject himself. Several third-party references are given to substantiate the subject's influence but in fact do not mention him at all, e.g. refs no. 3, 4, 5, 6. Reference no. 8 does discuss the subject in some detail but it is essentially a press release from Texas Tech University, where he worked at the time, so not an independent source. Refs no 15, 16 are pdf scans of Uzbek newspaper clips from 1990s that do seem to mention his book. That's something but not enough. Overall, too little here that is verifiable, and not enough to show noitability per WP:PROF, WP:AUTHOR or WP:GNG. Nsk92 (talk) 19:01, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete with thanks to Nsk92 for a very thorough analysis. Mccapra (talk) 20:05, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Not a notable historian. Nikoo.Amini (talk) 23:29, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


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