The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 14:23, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ali Mirzad (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

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There is little to hang an article on here; a claim that he has written a book (no evidence for this on the Web) and a claim that he is a minor politico (press secretary for the district of Behsud).

None of the sources given in the article support the information given however; in fact they do not mention Mirzad at all.   pablo_hablo. 20:28, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Afghanistan-related deletion discussions. --   pablo_hablo. 20:28, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. --   pablo_hablo. 20:29, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. --   pablo_hablo. 20:29, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. I don't think he passes WP:POLITICIAN as he is a mere political staffer. He does not pass WP:AUTHOR - I can't find any references to the one book that it is claimed he wrote. Finally, I can't find, and the article does not cite, significant coverage that would demonstrate he passes WP:GNG. It would be great if someone who has the language ability to do so could review the 3rd and 4th sources cited in the article. Pending that, or if it can't be done, deletion is appropriate.--Mkativerata (talk) 20:40, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Based on the reasons provided by Mkativerata. And, sources 3 and 4 mentions nothing about him. The Persian source, dailyafghanistan, is a news site. The sourced article from Daily Afghanistan is about President Karzai's cabinet ministers. (Ketabtoon (talk) 20:58, 12 January 2010 (UTC))[reply]
• Delete per the above comments. I certainly can't find any other information that would confirm notability, and being a deputy press secretary clearly is not a legitimate claim to encyclopedic notability.  Glenfarclas  (talk) 22:43, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - I don't think I am qualified to judge the notability of this person. So far, I haven't seen anything from any other editor that convinces me they are qualified to judge, either.Jarhed (talk) 20:58, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I am qualified to judge, as he does not pass the guidelines for an article. Alio The Fool 21:11, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh really? How do you know?Jarhed (talk) 22:38, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep The references are not in English, and I don't know if I can trust what I have read about what they say. I also suspect that the proper references might not be available online. Finally, I suspect that we might be biting a newbie. I think we should wait on this a while.Jarhed (talk) 10:02, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there , So sorry to bother you all. Since I was physically and psychologically exhausted with what now seem the worst idea that I ever had to creat this article (Ali Mirzad) I have decided to delete this article. The intial objective of this article was of informative basis. It is sad and unfortunate ..but I felt helpless and tired. You'll understand by reviewing my talk page.. all the editors are fighting amongst themselves and are becoming more and more violently anal. In a world full of violence the last thing I ever want is to be the reason behind on more conflict.

Unless you can help to setelle their dispute I respectfully urge you to allow me deleting my own article.

kind regards,

P.S. I should add that I found the incessant comments about my capability of the english language quite hurtful. as I am a an english literatur masters student. I don't believe that someone's ability should be judged by a few typos.. :-(

--JamshidAwal (talk) 05:51, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Just to be clear, the comments about 'language ability' in this AFD have nothing to do with your language ability; they are to do with the ability of English language readers to read the 4th and 5th footnotes to the article - which are links to non-English publications - in order to determine whether the publications are reliable sources for the material in the article. --Mkativerata (talk) 06:15, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• If this article is deleted, it can be restored to your userspace for you to work on. Other editors can review it there and it can be restored as an article when it's ready. But it really will need some better sources. I will place a {{rescue}} tag on the article, this will attract other editors who may be able to help.   pablo_hablo. 07:10, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• If there is a non-English language Wikipedia to which a corresponding article could be written where the language would not be a barrier to the readers, that may be a way of improving the basis for this article to bring it to a level of quality. Edward Vielmetti (talk) 07:34, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. As per Mkativerata, doesn't assert sufficient notability, appears to fail WP:POLITICIAN , WP:AUTHOR and WP:GNG . Off2riorob (talk) 17:19, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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