Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Homayoun Shajarian


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was   keep. No arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:30, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Homayoun Shajarian

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No in-line reference, no English references. It's important to note that the BBC reference is NOT in English. Beeshoney (talk) 09:37, 19 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep - no inline citations, but the BBC article provided shows evidence of notability. Note that the nominator has not proposed any policy-based reason for deletion. Thparkth (talk) 12:08, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Please read this and this. There are no English references for this article - I quote from Verifiability: "When citing a source in a different language, without quotations, the original and its translation should be provided if requested by other editors". I also quote from BLP: "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation". Unless the article is improved, I still say delete. Beeshoney (talk) 12:24, 19 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Could you please provide a link to where you have requested a translation of the Persian source? And could you please clarify which material you think is likely to be challenged in the article? Thparkth (talk) 12:46, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

I request a translation here. I also challenge all of the material in the article, as none of it has in-line citations. Beeshoney (talk) 13:10, 19 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep - per Thparkth. --John (talk) 13:17, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep per Thparkth and John, and repeatedly trout-slap the nominator with the largest available piscine resource. The fact that the BBC published a lengthy interview with the article subject, regardless of language, is substantial evidence of notability; the nominator's wikilawyering in defense of his slothful failure to take advantage of freely available online translation resources is more suggestive of disruptive intent than of intent to promote article improvement. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 15:46, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
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 * Speedy Keep as per Thparkth and also Google hits in Farsi and English have good quality. Spada II ♪♫ (talk) 06:12, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
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