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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:20, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Geysar Alakbarzadeh[edit]

Geysar Alakbarzadeh (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

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Not a notable player Lida Vorig (talk) 06:13, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Azerbaijan-related deletion discussions. cab (talk) 15:28, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Kazakhstan-related deletion discussions. cab (talk) 15:28, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. cab (talk) 15:28, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, meets the primary notability guideline through the multiple non-trivial newspaper Russian-language articles about him (Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL, e.g. [1][2][3]), as well as WP:ATHLETE by playing for FC Tobol, a team of the Kazakhstan Premier League. cab (talk) 15:28, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep, user talk is seems to be loving flagging Azerbaijan articles without knowing the purpose of any of this articles and arguing that is not relevant for English Wikipedia. This user also has have previously warned about flagging Azerbaijani articles. So moderators, should be check her background first before doing any action.--NovaSkola (talk) 21:10, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. GiantSnowman 13:30, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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• Keep - new references means this player now looks to meet WP:GNG, and so his WP:ATHLETE failure is irrelevant. GiantSnowman 16:27, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Has received lots of media attention, focusing specifically on him: [4] [5] [6] [7] ... --GRuban (talk) 13:45, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment If these articles are focused on him then can't any of the info be used in the article? Spiderone (talk) 15:30, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Good point. Done. --GRuban (talk) 16:10, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep plays in a notable league and a number of references have been presented. Eldumpo (talk) 10:03, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep because of GRuban's refs Spiderone 16:23, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Per above.--EchetusXe 13:10, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - well sourced and meets the general notability guideline. matt91486 (talk) 23:52, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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