Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iran Darroudi


 * 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 of the debate was KEEP. &mdash; J I P  | Talk 13:11, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Iran Darroudi
From speedy. I suspect most admins (like me) saw the long list of exhibitions and weren't certain about whether this person is notable. No vote. r3m0t talk 02:10, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I added an article I found on her from Iran Daily in the reference section of the article.  She is apparently a famous painter in Iran and I see no reason to delete the article.  It does need to be cleaned up.  Movementarian 02:30, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment probably a non notable artist (137 google hits) but I would atleast vote for deletion of the list of her exhibitions. --Pboyd04 02:31, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup, unless we get some new info from Iran. -- JJay 02:38, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn. -->Newyorktimescrossword 04:25, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NeoJustin 04:32, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Week Keep. Despite the fact that this person's Google search only warrants a few hundred websites, one of the most famous painters in Iran sounds notable.  The article, however, is a mess of uselessness and needs vast improvement.  The reason it's up for deletion is because the article's lack of professionalism. (Notorious4life 04:59, 29 December 2005 (UTC))
 * Delete - I don't see how we can keep it in the shape that it's in. Madman 06:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not up to standards. AucamanTalk 07:50, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Query -- whose standards ? Given the illiterate and ungrammatical stuff apparently acceptable on some pages where the author's first language is not Engrish. --09:08, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup, possibly marking for expert attention. Seems to be reasonably well-known in Iran, and a good article would counter Western bias. I note that the links provided in the article spell her name as Darudi, not Daroudi. This implies there are several different ways of transliterating her name from Farsi, which could help explain the low Google hits. Perodicticus 10:37, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, spellings are actually Darrudi/Darroudi. (See what I mean?) Perodicticus 10:40, 29 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Undecided subject is an Iranian painter, but scores about 1/10 the number of Google hits that I do, so is not widely discussed. On the toher hand, that could just be systemic bias at work.  Needs an expert to quantify the subject's importance; I do know many non-notable artists who have had hundreds of exhibitions in minor galleries and at least one who has exhibited at Liberty's in London and the Medici Gallery; he is still an essentially unknown jobbing artist. Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 12:23, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep following further research. - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 12:53, 29 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep for the time being, until somebody makes a real Google search which includes Persian, or somebody competent in Iranian art can do a bit of research in printed sources. u p p l a n d 12:44, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and put a clean-up tag on it. There's more info at her website that could be used to improve this. JLaTondre 01:43, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've added a cleanup tag; hopefully, someone with more knowledge of the field will be able to improve it. -Colin Kimbrell 20:09, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Seems like a marginal but notable-enough artist.Herostratus 04:01, 4 January 2006 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.