Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chaker Khazaal

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The result was delete. Jujutacular (talk) 05:21, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Chaker Khazaal

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Searching for news articles in google (Search) results nothing but his self published blogs. Only Being a refugee does not make him notable. Arabian Business Magazine did not ranked him #1 #2 or not even #3 but #36. Therefore it does not make him notable. The website (top100arabs) that ranked him #10 in their list is not notable itself. His books also does not seem to be much notable no warrant their own articles. searching with the names of his books also results (Search) his self written blogs. Variation 25.2 (talk) 10:50, 22 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment At least one recent editor, Aj0ob009 (talk · contribs), has stated he is an employee of Chaker Khazaal. Ogress _smash! 22:41, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete. Very borderline. Lots of different claims to notability: won an award from a university, was interviewed a number of times, including live on MSNBC, was on that top 100 list of Most Powerful Arabs Under 40, wrote a book trilogy. None of them appears to meet WP:N. I think it's close, but I don't quite see it. --Ashenai (talk) 22:52, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:42, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Should not be deleted.Chaker Khazaal (verified user on Facebook www.facebook.com/ChakerKhazaalPage) has written three novels, appeared on numerous major interviews in America, and written articles that went viral. I don't work for him nor do I have conflict of interest. This whole attack on Chaker Khazaal has began since the release of his latest Huffington Post article that pissed some people off, WHERE IS FREEDOM OF HIS SPEECH?

Below are links that verify him as a NOTABLE person who made something out of nothing. #SupportChaker #BigFan

http://www.msnbc.com/road-map/watch/refugee-crisis-reaches-unprecedented-level-470588995511 (Interview on MSNBC)

http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/highlight/in-the-middle-of-war-people-still-fall-in-love-have-big-dreams-and-hopes/5356a4b3fe344491ea000092 (Interview with HuffPost Live)

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/revealed-100-most-powerful-arabs-under-40-589647.html (He was chosen #36 in the World Powerful Arabs Under 40)

http://edm.com/articles/2015-04-28/garrix-talks-education-cyber-bullying (His famous interview with Martin Garrix)

http://www.mondanite.net/article/1187/meet-chateau-ksaras-brand-ambassador-mr-chaker-kha (Him appointed as brand ambassador for a big wine company in Lebanon)

http://20to30.com/profiles/chaker-khazaal/ (Interviews with him)

http://www.latalkradio.com/Max.php (Interview with LA Radio)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chaker-khazaal/ (Huffington Post Page with all articles)

http://www.all4palestine.com/ModelDetails.aspx?gid=7&mid=5240&lang=en (Notable by this website as a Palestinian figure)

http://www.al-bab.com/blog/2015/august/huffpost-arabi.htm (Article mentioning Chaker’s latest article)

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/blogs/565738-huffington-post-distorts-muslim-brotherhood-connections--then-defends-them (Mentioning Chaker’s last article)

http://www.marocbuzz.com/ar/2015/02/23/بالصور-شاكر-خزعل-سفيراً-لنبيذ-لبناني/ (Arabic: about him being brand ambassador for wine)

http://www.kataranovels.com/novelist/شاكر-خزعل/ (Nomination for an Arabic Award)

http://alawda-pal.net/index.php?s=articles&cat=3&id=179 (Interview with Awda Network)

http://www.albawaba.com/ar/ترفيه/محمد-رحيم-600288

-— GlobalWikiCitizen (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. 00:59, 2 September 2015 (EST)

Keep Clearly a notable subject. Chaker Khazaal got enough media coverages for his works. --Khocon (talk) 03:51, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Khocon, I agree; being 36th most powerful Arab under 40 in the World is an honor in addition to 3 novels he has written. I wish those criticizing and suggesting to delete can show us where THEY rank and what THEY have done :) Also, those suggesting to delete did not google Chaker's name in Arabic or check the links I mentioned above. Chaker Khazaal is an icon for young writer, journalists, and those who were born as refugees and made something out of life. --— GlobalWikiCitizen (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. 01:02, 2 September 2015 (EST)

Note GlobalWikiCitizen is an SPA editing only on this page and AFD. - E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:02, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Familiar type in the author's AFD list: a Self-published novelist (trilogy of novels) who has gotten no reviews. He blogs for the Huffington Post, this, in itself, confers no more notability than blogging anywhere else. The one plausible claim is that he was named to a list of the "100 Most Powerful Arabs Under 40" on Arabian Business. the write-up states that, "He released his critically acclaimed novel Confessions of a War Child in 2013..." [1] but I cannot find an actual, published reference to his novels. It also describes him as a "reporter", but blogging for HuffPost is hardly that. Top-100 lists are as impressive as their publishers, I suppose. Although, "under forty" is the minor league even of such lists. Thing is, I had never heard of Arabian Business, so I looked them up - on Wikipedia! 5 of the 6 citations are to ITP Publishing Group. Never heard of ITP either. Turns out ITP owns Arabian Business. Is it a reliable source? I have no idea. (I just tagged that article for primary sourcing) Then I listened to the MSNBC interview. He sounds very young and repeats a very personal claim over and over, that he is a "refugee" because his grandparents were refugees. Lord bless him but hundreds of millions of people can say the same. He, however, is not a refugee but, apparently, a legal resident of Canada (where he was apparently originally admitted on a student visa) and of the U.S. I suppose we could all be interviewed on MSNBC as descendants of refugees. It would not make us notable. He is very active on social media, but in regard to reliably sourced evidence of notability, he is just another ambitious writer with a Wikipedia page supported only by a self-published fiction trilogy e-book that has been reviewed nowhere. Feel free to flag me if significant, reliable sources turn up.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:37, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Clearly non-notable, delete. Apparent notability from links has demonstrably been shown to be circular references and non-notable content. Ogress _smash! 18:40, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Doesn't meet WP:GNG or WP:NCORP, as per nom and editors above. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:27, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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