Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hussein el gebaly

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The result was no consensus. MBisanz ^talk 02:51, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hussein el gebaly

non notable individual, self promotional autobiography, poorly formatted unreferenced does not assert notability Troyster87 (talk) 02:11, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and tag for cleanup. Yes, the article is badly written and unreferenced, but it does quite clearly assert notability for its subject, and that notability appears to be adequate for an article. According to the article, the subject has appeared in a number of newspaper articles, and has works in the permanent collections of several museums. All of these are evidence of notability, as are the long list of awards he has apparently received at the end of the article. Unless there's reason to doubt the veracity of these statements, this article is merely unsourced, not non-notable. JulesH (talk) 08:36, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep While the lack of references may be a problem, the article clearly asserts notability (which makes the nominator's statement invalid). Keeping in mind the article is relatively new, I believe it requires love from the Wikipedia:WikiProject Egypt or Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography, not deletion. The editor who wrote it appears to be new too. Helping him get to grips with the rules might also improve the article. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:49, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —John Z (talk) 00:50, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The article needs to be entirely rewritten; right now it is essentially a structured list. It does indeed assert notability; quite strongly. However, I am a bit surprised that someone with that kind of international reach and so many awards would have practically no news coverage (the two news links seem to refer to someone else).--Eric Yurken (talk) 02:19, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Sorry, but this is a combination of a very badly written article with what seems to be a lot of puffery and some nonsense. It is pretty obvious that the subject is also the author of the article, and yet we have statements like these in the article: “He participated in the artistic Movement since 1960 till now”; and “Biennale of Saopulo, Brazil-1989”. The first statement makes no sense, and the second suggests that the author/subject of the article himself does not know that the event he supposedly participated in is called “Bienal de São Paulo”. Finally, there seem to be no reliable independent news coverage of the subject, as I noted in my comment above.--Eric Yurken (talk) 14:42, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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