Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Keivan Zokaei


 * 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 soft delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz Read! Talk! 22:47, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Keivan Zokaei

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WP:BLP of a writer, not properly sourced as passing inclusion criteria for writers. The attempted notability claim is that he won a minor special-interest award for his writing a decade ago, which would be fine if the article were properly sourced but is in no way "inherently" notable enough to hand him a "no sourcing required" inclusion freebie -- but the only source being cited here at all is a piece of his own writing being circularly cited to metaverify its own existence, which is not the kind of sourcing it takes: we need WP:GNG-worthy coverage and analysis about him, in third-party reliable sources (media, books, etc.) independent of himself, not just technical verification that he exists. Bearcat (talk) 01:25, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and United Kingdom. Bearcat (talk) 01:25, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment. subject has a fair number of citations in business/supply chain-related topics. &mdash;siro&chi;o 03:52, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. per WP:NPROF : While Zokaei is cited in some reputable publications, these references are largely tangential or self-written. Additionally, the vast majority seem to reference only a single publication by Zokaei. Together, I believe these facts would broadly rule out criteria 1 of WP:NPROF, the only criteria I can see possibly applying. KJGinger (talk) 05:31, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 02:20, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, Business,  and Wales.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  05:19, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete: BLP, fails GNG and NBIO. BLP requires strong sourcing and none is in the article. BEFORE found nothing that meets WP:IS WP:RS with WP:SIGCOV addressing the subject (the individual) directly and indepth. shows they are cited, but none of these address the subject diretly and indepth. If someone finds SIGCOV about the subject ping me.  // Timothy :: talk  16:15, 21 November 2023 (UTC)


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