Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norman Ali Khalaf

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The result was delete. czar 22:24, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Norman Ali Khalaf

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A prolific author, but not one who has received any personal coverage; and apparently not a highly decorated or influential academic either. A scattering of coverage over an Islamist incident only provides passing mentions. Khalaf seems to fail

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• Delete. As far as I can tell all his supposed publications are self-published, and all his supposed discoveries are in his own self-published journal. I didn't find reviews or even publishers for any of them. (It's a little confusing, though, because his Fauna Palaestina has the same title as a different and more notable one, he:Fauna Palaestina, edited by Levy and Amitai and published by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.) Maybe the titles are translated from another language? Most of the ISBNs are unrecognized but the "Family of Sharif" one links to something with a title in Arabic. There is a long list of sources but they all look either to be by the subject rather than about him, non-reliable sources (e.g. facebook posts), newspaper stories that do not establish notability (quoting him about racism in German schools) or trivial puff pieces (breathlessly reporting that his wife uploaded a photo to the National Geographic reader contributions section). None support the actual content of the article, his work as a scientist. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:14, 29 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• delete I'm not seeing the coverage I think is necessary to meet the GNG. Looking at google scholar doesn't show me anything to convince me he meets
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• Delete I had PRODed this once already, finding insufficient sources. That hasn't changed. A loose necktie (talk) 05:45, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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