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The result was keep. Very strong consensus that notability and sourcing has been satisfied, including removal of delete !votes (non-admin closure) Nosebagbear (talk) 21:32, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Walid Shurafa[edit]

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Notability NANExcella (talk) 11:01, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:39, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Palestine-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:39, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. Not close to passing GNG or PROF.Icewhiz (talk) 11:49, 28 August 2018 (UTC) Striking due to sources found below, however I would question whether the author is notable as opposed to the shortlisted book (which has been reviewed by several outlets, easily meeting NBOOK) being notable.Icewhiz (talk) 05:13, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~ it is WP:TOOSOON for this novelist. News searches in Latin alphabet turn up a number of articles mentioning him as having been shortlisted for an Arabic literature prixe him for a prize, but no WP:SIGCOV in English language media. It appears that his novels are published only in Arabic, it is very unusual for a novelist not published in a European language to have a page on the English WP.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:11, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- There is nothing in our notability or sourcing requirements that sources be in English or in European languages. There's a tendency for that to happen anyway because those are the languages most of our editors know best, but that's a bug, not a feature; see Wikipedia:Systemic bias. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:56, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I did not mean to suggest that there was, I was only specifying the breadth of my searches. I find only mentions, and not many of those.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:26, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I think shortlisting for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (an honor that comes with a $10K prize) is enough for WP:AUTHOR 4(c) and that his other published books, although seemingly not enough for notability themselves, save this from BIO1E. Note in searching that many sources spell his name "Walid Al-Shurafa". —David Eppstein (talk) 20:10, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per David Eppstein's rationale. --1l2l3k (talk) 20:38, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not at all certain about that rationale. It's a lot of money, and they've been giving the prize for over a decade. Almost all of the authors are bluelinked, and almost all of the author pages are mere stubs, with a smidgen of PRIMARY sourcing. Do Arabic novelists lack fans? Is the committee deliberately choosing writers that no one reads? I really don't understand all of those pages just sitting there with an unsourced sentence or two.E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:22, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably, considering the plentiful coverage I just linked below, most of these authors are well-known and widely-read by Arabic-speakers but rarely discussed in Latin-alphabet sources. FourViolas (talk) 22:54, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep His name in Arabic is وليد الشرفا. In addition to the IPAF nomination, for a book that was widely (and favorably) reviewed in Arabic-language RS [1] [2][3] [4] [5][6][7] and earned him several interviews [8] [9], his work is discussed at length in this reliable source, a book of Arabic-language literary studies written by Ali Hassan Kharaja, a Ph. D. in Arabic Literature. I believe this constitutes significant critical attention per AUTHOR 4(c).

I also found a few reviews of his academic books [10] [11], and a news snippet [12]. FourViolas (talk) 22:54, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

He has also been cited as an expert on Palestinian media by Vice and Ynetnews, although I'm not sure if this rises to the standard of WP:NACADEMIC #7. FourViolas (talk) 23:19, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep trusting Arabic-reading editors on book reviews.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:58, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per David Eppstein. James500 (talk) 04:47, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: meets WP:NAUTHOR per review of available sources. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:20, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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