Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ugur gurses

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 of the debate was KEEP. It can't be transwikied to the Turkish Wikipedia as it's not in Turkish. — JIP | Talk 08:13, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Non-notable, personal article. See the article to see why. WB 01:43, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• I don't know how to go about this one. It gets 46,500 Google hits, but most of them are in another language. Perhaps Transwiki to the Turkish Wikipedia? Acetic'^Acid 01:57, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• I've decided to go with Keeping the article. It would be nice if we could find a user who speaks both Turkish and English and would be willing to expand this (given that most of the resources are in Turkish). But he is notable, so he gets to stay in the 'pedia. Acetic'^Acid 01:30, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Radikal is a Turkish daily newspaper published in İstanbul. [1] It has no English version that I can see. Ugur Gurses may be a notable author, but not for the purpose of the English Wikipedia. Therefore, transwiki to the Turkish Wikipedia. - Sensor 02:20, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Transwiki to Turkish. If it already exists then be away with it.  freshgavin^TALK   02:36, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and expand: If he's "notable for the purposes of the Turkish Wikipedia" then he's notable here. Stop systemic bias. User:Purplefeltangel/sig 02:37, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I guess we could do that if we can get someone who can read Turkish. But I guess transwiki-ing is a better idea. -- WB 02:53, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't mean to encourage 'systemic bias', but the problem seems to be that this journalist is notable only in Turkey (if indeed he is even notable; I wasn't able to find any articles by him on Radikal's website, although I admittedly can't read much Turkish). If someone can stubbify and expand this article, great. Otherwise, it should be transwikied. - Sensor 00:10, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      • This article is not in Turkish. Kappa 00:34, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, legitimate journalist. Transwiki-ing is not appropriate because this article is in English. Kappa 04:57, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. I basically agree with what purplefeltangel says, but if he doesn't even exist in the Turkish Wikipedia, then how can we assert his notability? (I can't be sure if it does exist or not in Turkish, though, because I don't know how to spell his name.)  freshgavin^TALK   06:08, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• keep We need foriegn languages to decipher the articles of the future, such as User:Geo Swan/working/AP List and User:Geo Swan/working/Algerian six. Joaquin Murietta 08:12, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Purplefeltangel and Kappa. Does the Turkish Wikipedia not have some kind of talk page, along the lines of Chatsubo on ja:, where we can look for someone knowledgeable enough to expand the article and/or explain why he isn't notable? Haeleth 14:26, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  Try the Wikipedia:Embassy Kappa 00:34, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• keep, and depreciate people listing things simply because they don't understand them. Trollderella 16:37, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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.