Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:43, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar

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BLP of an academic with only references to his own work. No sign that anyone else thinks he's notable Rathfelder (talk) 22:28, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Rathfelder (talk) 22:28, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 11:41, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * delete does not meet criteria. --hroest 18:14, 6 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. Google Scholar found only single-digit citations to his work, and I also found no books by him let alone well-reviewed books, so I don't see a pass of WP:PROF. Searches for his supposed book "Life at the court of the early Qajar Shah" turn up only Wikipedia and Wikipedia mirrors. His position at a community college is also not promising for scholarship-based notability; certainly department chair is far below the level of administrative responsibility (heading a whole university) needed for notability. So the only possibility for notability seems to be his founding and heading the International Qajar Studies Association. Setting aside whether that association is even notable, it seems to be a small and very specialized research subcommunity, not the sort of "major academic society" for which leadership would bring WP:PROF notability. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:48, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Not sufficient independant coverage. I found some books at Amazon but not any reviews beyond that. -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:17, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete I have to admit I am still less than covinced Academic notability point 6 was meant to refer to community colleges. However that only applies clearly to heads of a free standing institution. It may apply to the heads of a law school or medical school in a larer institution, it never applies to department chairs, least of all to ones junior and community colleges.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:40, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete refs are not much. WP:BIO is not met here. MissiYasında&#38;&#38; (talk) 19:20, 9 August 2020 (UTC)


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