Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Khaled Ghassan Youssef


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:00, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Khaled Ghassan Youssef

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Apparent autobiogrpahy de-proded by creator. Notability is asserted by claims such as "famous in the Arab and Muslim worlds, and known as the father of Islamic banking" but the sources provided are a the author's Wordpress blog (from which much of the content is copied verbatim) and this, which I can't read but is from appears to only be an article written by the subject for a site of undetermined notability. The "father of Islamic banking" claim seems dubious given that the subject is about 30 and Islamic banking is, while still young, definitely older. Searching for other sources comes up empty. This article fails WP:BIO. &mdash; Scientizzle 13:50, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. I can't find any significant third-party sources whatsoever to indicate how the subject meets WP:BIO inclusion requirements. Your point about the relative chronologies of the article's subject and of Islamic banking is well made too (though "father of Islamic banking and time travel" would be a *fantastic* claim to fame). Gonzonoir (talk) 14:58, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * You were right too about this being copied almost verbatim from the blog. Because those contents are not marked as available under CC-BY-SA, I've blanked them as a copyright violation. Gonzonoir (talk) 15:00, 29 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. Self-promoting autobiography of subject who fails the general notability guideline. -- Rrburke (talk) 18:13, 29 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. Fails WP:BIO, not notable and quite possibly made up QU TalkQu 22:01, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete - Blatant disregard of WP:AUTO by a WP:SPA … totally lacking WP:RS to meet WP:GNG, let alone WP:BLP. Happy Editing! &mdash;  23:22, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete, per nom. No evidence of passing WP:BIO. A possible CSD G11 candidate. Nsk92 (talk) 16:13, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Clear Delete as failing WP:V and notability criteria. Ray  Talk 01:34, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - This piece of vanispamcruftisement looks like a blatant copy and paste of the subject's website … can anyone say Db-copyvio? &mdash; 70.21.16.94 (talk) 03:45, 31 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Don't Delete hi i am the editor of the article and i have changed the article in accordance with the advices you have generously made, due to errors in transelation i may had writen something by mistake but it is now Rectified, i sincerly hope that the page won't be delted, i didn't make it in vanity or some thing else, it is just an info page about one of aknowledged Jordanian writer, also i included refrences from my articles in the news paper where i write, it is in arabic, and if you don't understand it or aknowledge it as third party refrencing, then i may inclued my publisher link for my book once it is created, other than that i am really not trying to publish false info on this site, and if you don't believe or agree with me, then thats your right to do so, but knowing that deleting this page you would deletetd another arabic refrence page in an already poor arabic data base number of pages in Wiki, which many users in the arab world needs to extract more arabic info from, but the poor number of arabic info on your website is one of the major problem with wiki for the arabic user, so i really hope you won't delet the page. Regards PS: thsi is the editor of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.108.77.12 (talk) 17:55, 31 October 2010 (UTC) — 86.108.77.12 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Comment - This is an English language wiki … why don't you try the Arabic language wiki at http://ar.wikipedia.org/ ? OTOH, they probably have a policy discouraging autobiographies as well … for purposes of WP:Notability, how much the subject may have written is not nearly as important as what has been written about the subject. &mdash; 70.21.16.94 (talk) 00:58, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Don't Delete becuase i changed the Disbuted word hi this the writer khaled yousef i changed the much disputed word, it is my nick name in journalisim and not a fact, i appreciate your support on not deleting the page. Regards to all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.108.77.12 (talk) 18:02, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * struck multiple !vote from anon editor (same IP). Agricola44 (talk) 16:51, 1 November 2010 (UTC).


 * Don't Delete this important Autobiogrophy page we in Jordan know the writer and he is one of the experts in the Islamic Banking and Finance and his page has lots of useful info, why you want to delete it? is it becuase about Islam ? do the admins have Islamo phobia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.165.154.133 (talk) 06:01, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The reasons contributors to this discussion have articulated for supporting the article's deletion are based on Wikipedia's notability inclusion policy - the requirement that all articles' subjects should already have received substantial coverage in reliable, third party sources, like books, newspaper pieces, scholarly journal articles, and so on. No such coverage appears to exist for the subject of this article. I do not believe this has anything to do with Islamophobia in any shape or form. Gonzonoir (talk) 14:05, 1 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Don't Delete this Article hi i am a collegue with dr khaled at the news paper, please don't delete this important article, as for father of islamic banking, it is his journalisim neck name that is called by, it is a prevelige for you to has his page on your website, and this is a public encyclopedia after all.Rami —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.165.154.133 (talk) 06:01, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * struck multiple !vote from anon editor (same IP). Agricola44 (talk) 16:51, 1 November 2010 (UTC).


 * Delete. Copyvio, fantastic claims with no supporting WP:RS, etc, etc – this is a vanity page. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 16:43, 1 November 2010 (UTC).
 * Delete absolutely no coverage in reliable sources. Armbrust  Talk  Contribs  12:14, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - Note that the subject,, has been adding links to their WP:AUTO to other articles … I have reverted them and warned them that continued disruptive edits could lead to their being blocked from editing here. &mdash; 70.21.16.94 (talk) 23:28, 5 November 2010 (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.