Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iraj Janatie Ataie


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The result was   keep. Cirt (talk) 00:34, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Iraj Janatie Ataie

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This guy is notable by no means! The article also lacks a single reliable source. Professional Assassin (talk) 18:29, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions.  -- Bradjamesbrown (talk) 10:35, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak delete - just judging from the article there seems to be no notability, and I could not find any other sources. I suspect that if there are any source they would be in Farsi, so any comments by Farsi speakers would be welcome. Демоны Врубеля/Vrubel&#39;s Demons (talk) 15:51, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I am native Persian speaker and never heard of such a person.--Professional Assassin (talk) 14:03, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Cirt (talk) 00:38, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. According to the Royal Shakespeare Company the subject was the "foremost Iranian poet and playwright in 1981 . Other sources include . Phil Bridger (talk) 16:06, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep per Phil Bridger. Werner Heisenberg (talk) 01:11, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, also try searching with "Jannati" and "Ataii" because there seem to be a number of transliterations. His work with Ebi is cited in that singer's PR, an academic conference in Germany on Iranian music dedicated the final night to him ("His poems were instrumental in their phenomenal success both before and after the Islamic Revolution"), the official bio of Googoosh, the most popular pre-Revolution female singer in Iran states that the birth-point of her career was the release of a song for which he was lyricist, he's mentioned in obituaries of Iranian film composer Babak Bayat that say their lifelong friendship inspired BB to write certain songs  and this mentions a play of his at the Royal Court Theatre in London, 1987, that "received critical acclaim", implying that non-web coverage exists. It looks like one of those cases where English-language sources on the web aren't that helpful. Of the sources linked above by Phil Bridger,  is from Theatre Record which collects national drama critics' reviews, proving that printed reviews exist,  is mentioning his name in the same sentence as Sue Townsend and Hanif Kureishi, notable literary figures. Holly25 (talk) 02:05, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
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