Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Babiker Hassanain

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 07:16, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Babiker Hassanain

Seems like vanity to me. Short article, person in question only gets 18 hits on google (most relating to someone at a university, and to a pool club). The article seems to say hes the first physicist for Sudan but the lack of Google hits makes me want to delete this. Hedley 23:53, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Looks like a consistent enough article - the chap who googles up is at Balliol & the Oxford theoretical physics centre, late of Pembroke Cambridge, entry 1999, which would mean he'd be ending year two or three of his PhD now. One paper published, which is most certainly theoretical physics (you can tell, as I don't know what half the words mean...). Note that the claim isn't that he's the first physicist from there; it's that he's the first physicist at that college from there.

However... that's not establishing notability. Could well be on his way to greatness - he certainly seems smart enough - but delete. We can always recreate an article later if need be. Shimgray 00:46, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Just to emphasise the likelihood of it being vanity (or at least created-by-a-friend), incidentally, it was created by User:163.1.166.216, which resolves to hm216.balliol.ox.ac.uk... hmm. This user seems to be adding a spate of such articles and comments. Time to chase up. Shimgray 00:55, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The user also created Adam Easton, a definite vanity (and again Balliol-related); I've put this on VfD and will leave the anon. (who I suspect to be Adam Easton or a friend) a note. Shimgray 01:06, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, notability is questionable, article one liner. Pavel Vozenilek 00:51, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete --Xcali 05:25, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete notability not established. JamesBurns 05:46, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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