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Deniz Kent (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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All coverage here is WP:ROUTINE besides one paper, where he isn't even the first or last author. Pretty clearly a WP:PUFF article. Allan Nonymous (talk) 15:46, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete: Sources are a blend of press releases ([1]), trivial mentions ([2]), affiliated sources (this one from the venture fund that invested in his company, this one), the subject's own writing ([3]), primary source Q&A interviews ([4], [5]), and WP:TRADES coverage ([6], [7]). The Information (which I can't access) has the best shot of being WP:SIGCOV but we need multiple examples to pass WP:GNG and I don't see that. The only other potential criteria I could see is WP:NACADEMIC but Kent's h-index of 2 is extremely low; he does not seem to be an influential researcher. Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:12, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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International Russian School in Antalya (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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One cite is not enough to show notability Chidgk1 (talk) 14:34, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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@Chidgk1: Hi! I think though that there could be possibly more citations in Russian and/or Turkish. If you like I could check if Russian and/or Turkish newspapers talk about the school. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:43, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@WhisperToMe Yes I should have mentioned I found a local Turkish newspaper https://www.lidergazete.com/bu-okul-ruslara-ozel-h60444.htm but could not check Russian as I don’t know the language Chidgk1 (talk) 17:55, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Chidgk1: Thank you so much for finding the source! I added it to a further reading part of the article. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:42, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per WP:MILL - small private elementary school, lacking significant coverage. Bearian (talk) 10:17, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Bearian: Comment: From the English source: "But while the school’s operators claim the school is a Russian school, the local Russian consulate has disagreed, forcing it to remove the country’s flag.". The entire article has multiple paragraphs about this dispute. To me, this looks like significant coverage. (Wikipedia:Notability#General_notability_guideline says: ""Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content.") WhisperToMe (talk) 13:09, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    That's not much of a claim to notability. I guess we can agree to disagree. Bearian (talk) 14:24, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep on the grounds that:

• A consulate attempting to interfere with an operation of a private school (a consulate is a representative of a foreign government), and succeeding (the school did what the consulate asked it to) - This is a highly unusual situation and, in my opinion, not run of the mill at all.
• Having multiple paragraphs of that covered in an article in English (and undoubtedly there would be Russian and/or Turkish language articles on the same controversy)
• This would a lasting effect on the school as its whole identity is that it's supposed to be a "Russian school" (this is not a minor aspect of the school, but something fundamental about the school itself)
• This Russian article (from Vesti (VGTRK)) seems to talk about a different controversy. A Google translation states that the Turkish newspaper Sabah commented on it (and it gave a different opening year, 2004, so perhaps "opened" in the 2010 Hurriyet article just means opened for the school year and not opened for the first time?)

WhisperToMe (talk) 18:31, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

USA Cup/Intercontinental Cup 1950 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Confusing, unreferenced article in which the author tries to make a 1950 tour to America by Turkish football team Beşiktaş J.K. into an international cup. Several other clubs also toured the US in 1950 including Manchester United and Hamburg SC. I can find no evidence that any of these tours were US or international cups. John B123 (talk) 09:03, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment Not sure it needs it's own page, certainly an interesting piece of history. The article is not unreferenced, it has external links which act as such so I find your nomination slightly floored. My suggestion is too add a sentence or two too the 1911–1959: initial years of football section on Beşiktaş J.K.. Regards Govvy (talk) 11:48, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete or Merge with Beşiktaş J.K.: I'm inclined to agree with Govvy here, it certainly seems notable enough to mention with a few sentences on the Beşiktaş J.K. page, but I haven't found enough WP:LASTING coverage to warrant it's own article per WP:NSPORTSEVENT (although someone familiar with Turkish sources may be able to find more). Having said that, the quality of prose isn't great, so I think it would require some copy editing. As an aside, @Jvore7, looking at your talk page, you have had a very similar article speedily deleted, and have moved this article back to mainspace two times after being draftified by other editors. I have attempted to communicate with you on your talk page, are you able to interact with the discussion here? FozzieHey (talk) 12:53, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. GiantSnowman 14:04, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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• Merge with Beşiktaş J.K.#1911–1959: initial years of football – Per Gowy. Could also be improved in an article for the club's 1950–51 season. Svartner (talk) 00:14, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tur Abdin Massacre (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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WP:NOR and WP:NOPAGE issues. The Sayfo (also known as Assyrian genocide) did occur in the Tur Abdin region and many people were killed. However, calling it the "Tur Abdin massacre" is misleading and not found in the sources cited. Instead, there were a variety of massacres in different locations. There is more information in Sayfo#Tur Abdin than in this article, and it will come up in searches for this term. Therefore, I think that deletion or redirect is the best option. (t · c) buidhe 08:22, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete: a mess of WP:OR Koshuri ^(グ) 17:40, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Şifa University (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Previous AfD was closed as no consensus despite having no keep !votes at all. A non notable former university that was only briefly open and was, importantly, a small private university. Thus the relevant SNG is WP:NORG, and so we need sources that meet WP:ORGDEPTH and also independent as per WP:ORGIND. Such sourcing does not exist. Attempted a redirect as suggested in the last AfD, but that was reverted, so here we are. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 21:22, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Pinging previous contributors: Chidgk1, SirBrahms and Peter James (who did suggest the redirect). Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 21:30, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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• Redirect. What the guideline actually says: "For-profit educational organizations and institutions", not all private institutions. WP:GNG is enough, but I don't think the coverage in the article now, or that found in the previous AfD, is enough for that. Peter James (talk) 10:55, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Thanks. I remain unopposed to a redirect to Purges in Turkey following the 2016 Turkish coup attemptList of educational institutions closed in the 2016 Turkish purges where this is mentioned, and where I already merged the information here. Yes, you are right that GNG is enough if the university were a suitable not for profit institution, but as far as I can see, from what little information is out there, it was seized as a business interest of Turkish businessman Akın İpek. The doesn't sound like a not for profit. But, as you say, that is likely moot as GNG is not met either. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 18:30, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  If you actually merged information to another page, then we can't delete this for legal/copyright license reasons. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:47, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  The merge was only of the sources, and no substantive text. I added the sourcing to the page following the last AfD. The discovery of the sourcing is in the AfD page which will be preserved. Attribution to this remains available, and is easily flagged with a dummy edit showing copywithin from the AfD page. And that is despite the fact that the merged material is not creative nor original, and that the licensing issue is a touch more nuanced. So in this case we certainly can delete, but I reiterate I am unopposed to a redirect. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:07, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of mountain passes in Turkey (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Tagged 12 years ago as having no cites. Wikipedia:Help desk#Why do wikipedia lists need references? and the Turkish article also lacks cites. Chidgk1 (talk) 09:48, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Seems to be a common problem in these List of mountain passes in... articles - List of mountain passes in Switzerland also has no refs, List of mountain passes of India isn't much better, List of mountain passes of South Africa links to a google map and List of mountain passes in Wyoming (A–J) is simply referenced to the US geological survey --Spacepine (talk) 10:21, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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• Merge table to List of mountain passes#Turkey. This is a navigational list and the respective links are implied to be references, but it does not need a standalone page. Reywas92^Talk 14:39, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:48, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 13:18, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• I had a quick look when this first came up. Although one can source mountain passes in Turkey, it is very difficult to source this specific list as it stands. It's partly a problem of names. Gülek Pass is mixed-language for Anglophones. In sources, it turns up as Gülek Bogazi (i.e. tr:Gülek Boğazı slightly mis-spelled) because they use the Turkish "boğaz" for "pass". Similarly, William Mitchell Ramsay's Maurianon and Karydion passes in the "Tauros" (not Taurus) mountains do not match anything here. Figuring out the names that will be in the geography books, and also which are the modern names, turned out to be more than a 10 minute job. Sorry Türkiye, but I already have Creeks on my plate. Uncle G (talk) 14:01, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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