Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manshour Varasteh


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The result was no consensus defaulting to keep and w/o prejudice to a future renomination. Ad Orientem (talk) 00:20, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Manshour Varasteh

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Fails to meet Notability (people), and Notability (academics) to be more specific. All "sources" used are somehow not independent from the subject, and are used to mask the lack of notability. Pahlevun (talk) 15:35, 23 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep. Article meets WP:NACADEMIC and WP:GNG. Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 06:50, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. Meets what, exactly? Pahlevun (talk) 16:05, 27 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete:Lack of using independent sources as well as article is based on self published sources Saff V. (talk) 11:38, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 11:34, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep per WP:NAUTHOR. Authored quite a few books (though many in Farsi) - which are held by libraries per worldcat. There are reviews - . Has fawiki entry, and there are additional sources there. Icewhiz (talk) 11:42, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as the nominator. Those who voted to keep, fail to clarify which of the criteria are met. Pahlevun (talk) 18:47, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Does not have enough secondary sourcing to meet WP:GNG. GPL93 (talk) 03:22, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm not seeing evidence that WP:GNG is met. I'm having trouble determining how notable his work has been as a scholar.  He appears to have edited several compilations of essays but that's not telling me much about his notability.  Icewhiz is correct about the reviews of the one book.  The problem is, again, determining how much to attribute to Varasteh when his essay is one of ten in the book being reviewed.  Google scholar shows only 1 book written by him that has any citations (4), everything else for him he's either the editor or one of multiple contributors.  Leaning toward delete but without high confidence. Papaursa (talk) 19:50, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2019 February 12.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Offline 19:45, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep: This article meets WP:NAUTHOR and WP:NACADEMIC, also has Persian Wiki entry with additional sources.Déjà vu • ✉ 14:57, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep: There is fawiki entry, and has reliable sources. MA Javadi (talk) 15:36, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep: per Icewhiz.- Poya-P (talk) 12:50, 16 February 2019 (UTC)


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