Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vakur Versan


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The result was   keep. -- Cirt (talk) 05:00, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Vakur Versan

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No sources leading out of obituary. General notability fails.  Rusted AutoParts  (talk) 14:23 6 May 2011 (UTC)
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I wrote the article and I can't find an online source in English. All of the sources are Turkish. There are three references. First reference is an article about the first legal scholars of Turkey in republic era. Second reference is his obituary. Third reference is biography of son of Vakur Versan. He is notability. --Eng-men (talk) 19:59, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

And there is not a copy-vio. I didn't copy the text from another web site. I wrote it myself. I removed copy-vio template from the article, but it came back :/ --Eng-men (talk) 20:02, 6 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep Enough to meet WP:GNG and WP:PROF. Cited in several works; his The Kemalist Reform of Turkish Law and Its Impact seems to have left a mark on academia and research. Served on Turkish constitution commission and a dean at Istanbul University. Not a terribly notable person from sources, but enough to meet requirements.--NortyNort (Holla) 02:12, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've added a reference to a very reliable source confirming that Versan was a member of the commission that drew up Turkey's constitution. That certainly passes the spirit (which is what counts) of WP:POLITICIAN, in that it is a position of far more influence and significance than state legislators in Wyoming or Mizoram, who get an automatic notability pass. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:24, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep as an academic whose work has had significant and notable impact outside academia. A constitution for a major nation-state qualifies. Ray  Talk 22:08, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
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