Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fardad Farahzad

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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. - Mailer Diablo 02:37, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fardad Farahzad

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This article came to my attention as a possible conflict of interest since the article is almost entirely edited by User:Fardad2007 (suspicious as either the subject of the article or a zealous fan). The content of the article isn't too bad as far as self-promotion, but I'm not sure about the position of notability since I think this is a grey area (newscasters and other figures in the media). The only seemingly independent source on the article for any kind of notability is an interview by Radio Zamaneh, which is in Farsi, so I'm not sure as to the content or if the source is indepedent: [1]. This was a disputed prod. Cquan (talk, AMA Desk) 01:19, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

  • I have to go with a delete here. He does a great job of trying, but no matter how hard you try, WP:AUTO is right - it's pretty difficult to write a non-objective autobiographical article. I'd hedge that he might be notable on the grounds that he is a news anchor (if only a small time one), but if that's the case, again going back to WP:AUTO, somebody will get around to writing about him. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 06:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
  • delete. Insufficient assertions of notability from independent sources. Also verifiability problem, for the same reason Mukadderat 00:43, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I agree this sounds like a conflict of interestBalloonman 04:19, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iran-related deletions. --   ⇒ bsnowball  10:46, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I agree that he tries, but he doesn't succeed. KrakatoaKatie 08:15, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.