Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Omar Al Issawi


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:36, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Omar Al Issawi

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Fails WP:BIO, more specifically WP:ARTIST. Google returns little of use. The only hit that seemed useful was a blank page. Lәo(βǃʘʘɱ) 01:39, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
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 * Keep Google actually turns up coverage of the subject in New York Magazine, the New Yorker and CNN items  plus . Pastor Theo (talk) 02:34, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Omar al-Issawi was declared a "living national icon" of his country, Lebanon, by the Guardian newspaper http://www.guardian.co.uk/country-profile/lebanon  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.211.124.166 (talk) 04:23, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep: notability seems well established: multiple reliable sources focusing -- in at least two cases solely -- on subject. Also note: link to this page on article is misformated/a red link.  T L Miles (talk) 20:29, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep: Clearly notable. Just needs a little bit of love. Fribbler (talk) 20:24, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I've coverted the external links to references. I think it is now one of the better short articles we have. Fribbler (talk) 21:22, 6 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Snow Keep per proper WP:AFTER and WP:CLEANUP show the subject meeting WP:GNG and WP:BIO. Kudos to Fribbler. Nice job.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 22:29, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
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