Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Khashayar Farzam


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  09:47, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Khashayar Farzam

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Non-notable individual. Article appears to be promotional in intent. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:23, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Also note that there may be a sock farm involved in the editing of this article. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:25, 22 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep (striking !votes by confirmed socks;  RA 0808  talkcontribs 01:48, 25 May 2017 (UTC)) By any standard, a silver medal at a world championships as a part of the national team alongside media recognition shows notability. This is a case of blatant disregard for notability in another culture & language (Persian in this case).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Medica1987 (talk • contribs) 18:05, 22 May 2017 (UTC)  — Medica1987 (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * It appears Google has not indexed some of the referenced sources. Cumulatively I would think there is evidence of notability but editing is required for any promotional components. Christina Co (talk —Preceding undated comment added 18:14, 22 May 2017 (UTC)  — Christina co (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
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 * Strong Keep (striking !votes by confirmed socks;  RA 0808  talkcontribs 01:48, 25 May 2017 (UTC)) IPF Worlds is the highest level of competition in Powerlifting. Obtaining a medal at that level is notable. As the sport of powerlifting grows, there will be more lifters with biographies and that is a positive thing given the participation levels seen in the sport today. I do also agree there should be a couple edits made to any content that may come off as promotional. However the individual has numerous media articles where he is the only subject of that paper. Criteria is undoubtedly satisfied.Matthew99x (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 04:40, 23 May 2017 (UTC)  — Matthew99x (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Medica1987, Christina co, and Matthew99x are ✅ socks. See Sockpuppet investigations/Guptalab.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:41, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:NATHLETE lists no criteria that would confer an automatic presumption of notability for weightlifters at all — which means a weightlifter's notability is entirely dependent on passing WP:GNG on the depth and quality of media coverage that can be shown. But the writing tone here is noticeably advertorial rather than encyclopedic, and the referencing is almost entirely to primary sources — the only reliable source coverage about him in media being shown here at all is entirely to weekly community newspapers (two Oshawa and one GTA-ethnic). Those would be acceptable for some supplementary sourcing of stray facts if the rest of the referencing around them were better than this, but they are not widely distributed enough to carry a GNG claim all by themselves if they're the only media sources you can show. All of which means that WP:TNT (a/k/a "blow it up and start over") applies here — even if he can actually be shown to clear a notability standard, this is not the article or the sourcing that gets him there. And no, this is not a "disregard" for Persian language sourcing either — of the 13 sources used here, only one of them is in Persian, so language is simply not the issue. Bearcat (talk) 13:25, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per Bearcat. I know that our criteria for inclusion of sports-people are absurdly lax, but this person appears nevertheless not to meet them either in general or as a student sports-person. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:44, 28 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep - Given my extensive familiarity with the sports in discussion I would make a logical case to keep. This is ONLY due to the extensive editing that has been made to the article. Jazz4477 (talk) 17:07, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: To assess whether later edits after the last delete !vote changed the article sufficiently.
 * Comment - Looked into it more and this person does indeed satisfy the general athlete criteria in that he competed at a major world level event. I would personally say participation is not sufficient but winning a medal + setting a world record would satisfy the general athlete notability requirements. Hence I think it's logical to keep the edited version of the article. Jazz4477 (talk) 18:59, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  So Why  08:44, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Plain non-notable. Noting notable with regards to the sports. My very best wishes (talk) 14:50, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
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