Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walid Phares


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The result was   keep. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 14:41, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Walid Phares

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Unsourced BLP, maintainability issues, seems marginally notable. If anyone cares enough to keep this article, please add reliable sources so that the article passes our verifiability and WP:BLP requirements. *** Crotalus *** 16:55, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  --  I 'mperator 16:57, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Problematic article made thornier by the strong possibility of conflict of interest edits: repeated edits by  (note that "Future Jihad" appears to be one of Walid Phares' pet projects). Tim Pierce (talk) 17:13, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:03, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep, there have been hundreds of news articles about this guy. Article needs references, not deletion. Nominator might want to re-read the deletion policy. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 05:30, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per Nomoskedasticity, very well known, hundreds of gnews hits, interviews and articles on him among them.John Z (talk) 08:24, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. He is a notable expert, mentioned by others in several books: , , , , , , , , , , , etc. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:30, 17 April 2009 (UTC)


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