Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Islamic Studies Foundation


 * 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   Delete. TexasAndroid (talk) 16:26, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Islamic Studies Foundation

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Notability concerns - lack of significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject. PhilKnight (talk) 11:51, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - If the information is correct, then i think that it deserves an article. However, i tried to Google up sources for verification and couldn't find any. So it fails Verifiability. I couldn't find the website of the foundation, and i couldn't find prof. Wilbert Staynes Richardson mentioned anywhere outside Wikipedia. It may even be a hoax. If sources for verification are provided, then it should be kept. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:20, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as unverifiable and almost certainly a hoax. The Institute has no web site, an absurdity in itself for a "nationally known" organization that publishes a journal and hosts an annual conference.  I can't locate any references to Richardson or to the Foundation in Google Scholar or any other search I've tried.   "The Critic" would be an unusual title for a journal of Islamic studies, and the stated topic "abnormal Islamic psychology", is off-kilter.  The University of Pennsylvania library catalog does not include this journal or any books published by this foundation.  The article claims that the Foundation is on the UCSD campus, but the UCSD web site has no mention of it at all.
 * The article has been substantively edited by only one editor, User:Edgarallenpoe, who made two edits to this article, but never anything else. One user, User:Projectuser, claims to verify that the Institute does exist but has no history of editing Wikipedia except this one claim.
 * The amount of available information about this organization should be at least comparable to them amount available about, say, the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute, my employer. But it is not only much less, it is exactly zero.   There is not one shred of reliable, objective evidence that this organization even exists.  It cannot be anything but a hoax.  -- Dominus (talk) 16:31, 29 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  -- Pete.Hurd (talk) 22:09, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * delete hoax, or indistinguishable from a hoax. Pete.Hurd (talk) 22:12, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note Related biography on Mark Outland is of equally suspicious status (comments at Talk:Mark Outland will file AfD when I have time). Pete.Hurd (talk) 22:17, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It has aleady been already AfD-ed by David Eppstein, Articles for deletion/Mark Outland. Nsk92 (talk) 22:45, 29 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete as failing WP:V. Most likely a hoax. Nsk92 (talk) 22:20, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete likely hoax. I tried searching the UCSD web site and found nothing; UCSD certainly has Islamic studies experts (e.g. Hasan Kayali) but their pages don't mention this supposed foundation. For that matter, "foundation" is a strange name for an academic research unit as this claims to be; "center" would be far more likely. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:06, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Hoax, attack page.John Z (talk) 22:31, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I tried every approach I knew on this and found nothing. I'm not sure it's a hoax exactly. I think it's a former local organization within a university department set up solely as an minor administrative or financial measure to sponsor a few unpublished unnotable lectures that has disappeared without any traces, even at that department. DGG (talk) 02:16, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The article claims that it is still hosting its annual conference and publishing its quarterly journal. -- Dominus (talk) 20:53, 2 September 2008 (UTC)


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