Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nariman Teymourian


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 00:38, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Nariman Teymourian

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Prod disputed by sole author, who appears to have a significant conflict of interest (judging from username, it's an autobio). Original proposal was to delete as a hoax. Certain claims of the article are unsourced and dubious, and author has removed tag without offering sourcing: Teymourian is not listed on the US Olympic team from 1984 (see official archive), and in addition, given the claimed birth year, there are serious inconsistencies. ROTC cadets are usually commissioned into the Army, not the Marines, and furthermore it is unusual (to say the least) to graduate from college and receive a commission into the armed forces at age 18 (owing to legal problems, as a commmitment would have had to be made by the age of 16 or so). Furthermore, I note that the 5th Marine Division was deactivated in 1969, and so far as Google has been able to determine, the 28th Recon Battalion does not exist. As for the subject itself, Google News confirms existence, but does not provide nontrivial coverage in sources independent of the subject, and hence subject would fail WP:BIO. Ray Talk 20:06, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
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 * Comment Google search appears to yield a case for the claim that he is a CEO in Silicon Valley, but the claims to military service and being an alternate on the U.S. men's football team at the 1984 Olympics are dubious. In addition to the evidence the nom brought forward, two things about this strike me as odd:
 * If he immigrated to the U.S. in 1979, why would he have played for the U.S. football team and not the Iranian team? I concede that if the military service story were true, that would explain this.
 * I refuse to believe that a person who is a retired USMC officer would consistently misspell the corps' name as "US Marine Corp"&mdash;5 times in this version if you include the category name.
 * KuyaBriBri Talk 20:28, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
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 * Delete setting aside the dubious claims, I find no evidence of significant coverage in reliable sources. Google hits seem to consist mainly of social networking sites; Google news hits are sound-bite quotes in industry articles, the majority of which are press releases for companies he's been associated with. Maralia (talk) 20:36, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. GiantSnowman 21:32, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:V and WP:BIO. There is no indication he ever had a soccer career, and if he did, it wouldn't be notable enough for him to merit an article. GiantSnowman 21:34, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax. Edward321 (talk) 14:39, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete There's something fishy here. Compare the article against this resume on the Gale Technologies website. Whether or not Teymourian is notable, if the man sincerely believed he had done any of the things in the Wikipedia article, wouldn't they be mentioned on this webpage? -- llywrch (talk) 22:20, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * When you send out your resume for a job interview, you generally leave out the material that is not relevant to the job at hand. This resume is no different since the army and his soccer career would be totally irrelevant for his CEO position. - Mgm|(talk) 10:49, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete There are multiple dubious claims that cannot be backed up. If those are removed, there's not sufficient material to support an article with. _ Mgm|(talk) 10:49, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


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