Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Ali Sina (activist)

My closure conflicted with the slightly earlier closure by another admin. For what it's worth, here's how I would have closed it:

I'm disregarding the "keep" opinions of OceanSplash, Quinacrine, Pamela geller and Pharaoh of the Wizards, because they are not based in, or are at odds with, Wikipedia's established rules for inclusion or other policies. The question here is whether Ali Sina has had enough independent, reliable coverage to qualify for inclusion, or not. This is a matter of editorial judgment, about which reasonable people may disagree. Nine people favor deletion, redirecting and/or merging with the article about his organization, whereas three (apart from those mentioned initially) argue for retention. This means that we have consensus not to keep this as a separate article, but no consensus for deleting it. Consequently, the result of this discussion is that the article is tagged for a merger; if this does not occur reasonably soon, it may be redirected and any content still deemed worthwhile may later be merged from the article's history.  Sandstein  17:36, 12 February 2012 (UTC)


 * What are you talking about? As the AfD-page says: "Wikipedia has policies and guidelines regarding the encyclopedia's content, and consensus is gauged based on the merits of the arguments, not by counting votes." and 'counting votes' is exactly what you are doing now. And as far as I can see, you are including the two last votes for merging, while these votes contain no arguments whatsoever. This judgement would have been quite unsatisfactory.Jeff5102 (talk) 11:40, 13 February 2012 (UTC)