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Yousef Alikhani Afd

I voted "delete", but then I read your note, looked at your user page, noted you had a "Complaints about Wikipedia" essay, read it, and saw this:

"No English sources" or "Not notable in English, only sources are in Japanese/Spanish/etc" are not acceptable reasons for deletion.

I've been ambivalent about this for a long time. If you look at my AfD note, you'll see I tried to find reasonable sources in English, but not in Farsi because ... well, I just don't know what I'm doing in Farsi. And my default assumption about English Wikipedia is: not notable in English -- no need for the article.

A few months ago, however, I installed Google Translate Toolbar, and it's really opening the world up to me. Until just now, it never occurred to me that I might track down any AfD discussion on deleting the BLP for Alikhani in Farsi, but I did it and it only took minutes. (The result was keep, but there was significant controversy.)

I think it's worth some formal policy effort (if there hasn't been some already) to determine when a topic that's vanishingly notable in one language is nevertheless notable enough in another to be included. I just don't know what that policy would look like, how you'd set the bar. Anyway, thanks for the AfD comment, and I'll certainly consider changing my vote because of it, and because of where it took me: here. :-) Yakushima (talk) 14:55, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Replied. cab (talk) 00:47, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Kenneth K. Kim

I noticed on your userpage that you have the template "ko-1". Would you take a look at the Korean-language sources provided at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Kenneth K. Kim and see if they are neutral reliable sources? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:30, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Comment: Hi, I am the creator of Dr. Kenneth K. Kim's article/page, and am very embarrassed to also say that it is my very first article and it has been an epic failure at this point. No, I am not affiliated with the Doctor in the sense that I have never met him, I am not him, and I am not paid by him, but my mom works for a korean newspaper and they recently did an article on him which is how i found out about him and apparently this is enough to fall under the "conflict of interest" category for his page.

Anyways, I added another article, which was the Yahoo! News one, that I would also greatly appreciate if you could provide some support/validity to the statements made in the claims. the link is here: http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=15&articleid=20090617030000497i9&newssetid=87

There was another article, which was from The Korea Daily, and it is not online although I do have a scanned/digital copy of it. I am not sure how to get that one checked but if you could let me know how I could. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!People bios (talk) 04:58, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Commented at AfD and replied. cab (talk) 06:21, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

I just read your user page and realized you were in it for the same cause ^__^ I align myself along similar views, especially because I always grew up feeling like I had an identity crises because of things like this. I think it's sad that so many people don't realize how many things get skewed because they lose their meaning during translation. I am also really amazed at how many articles you wrote! I am going to try and write more once this whole fiasco clears up. I am not trying to botch history and make it skewed, but I think sometimes people don't realize how difficult it is to make it in history when the odds are against you due to reasons XYZ.People bios (talk) 19:12, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the in-depth analysis of the sources. You have been very helpful. Cunard (talk) 07:10, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vardough

Hey there, thanks for commenting. I have closed the discussion as withdrawn. I have moved the article, but as I am unfamiliar with Persian feel free to tidy it up if anything needs doing. Jujutacular ^T · C 02:41, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm not disruptive

Hi, I removed unsourced POVs claims from Afghans in Pakistan and you reverted by faithful edits. Cane you please explain where is the source to back up this claim "However prior to this stage hundreds of thousands of refugees had already obtained Pakistani national identity. Scores of Afghanis who acquired Pakistani identity are settled in a number of countries."? The sources attached does not mention anything of such, it only says 2.4 million Afghans were registered.

I removed the part explaining to which provinces of Afghanistan they returned because that's irrelevant to Afghans in Pakistan. This article should only focus on Afghans that ARE in Pakistan.

About NWFP, I wrote that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was formerly NWFP. Please review my edits very carefully before you start reverting like an angry kid.--119.73.6.164 (talk) 05:20, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

I understand your point but I'm from this region and I know more. It's hard to trace those who have gone back to Afghanistan because people there move around so much, if we put that unnessary information it's like we are trying to be very sure where they are living now. Afghanistan does not even have a computerized system to register their citizens.--119.73.6.164 (talk) 05:42, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

No, I'm not a vandal, a POV pusher or going around attacking people of other groups. I go around clear the missinformations placed by people who do those things. With this I want everyone to know exactly how many Afghans live in Karachi based on official government sources, because Pakistani nationalists always claim that millions of Afghans live in Karachi but that's way off. Pakistan has a very tough system when it comes to illegals, every person must show ID on daily bases to police when they are pulled over at check posts. And making Pakistani computerized ID is exttremely difficult because the birth records of father and grandfathers are required. All this info is placed in central computers at NADRA office, along with finger print and facial photo. So, there are no 100s of thousands of Afghans walking around with fake IDs in Pakistan as what some Pakistani editor tried to put in the article. There may be, however, a small number of people who made this. Pakistan's law punishes a person who makes a fake ID wit 5 years in jail so that's another reason why Afghans don't do such criminal act.--119.73.6.164 (talk) 06:05, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Please stop removing sourced edits. --Saki ^talk 08:09, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

I was not asking you cab, I'm talking to IP, who keep on vandalising article. --Saki ^talk 08:32, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

By any chance you (User:Saki) and User:CaliforniaAliBaba are not the same person?--119.73.6.164 (talk) 08:29, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

FYI: "Perzische gemeenschap" is ALSO a common term

Dear Friend, Thanks for your message but it seems you have not followed the matter carefully because: 1- I did not change "Iran" to "Persia". 2- I just mntioned that "Perzische gemeenschap" is ALSO a commen term in Dutch (both media and books). Google News is temporary. You may check it here. You can easily see that it has been used in Volkskrant, Throuw, Persian Dutch Network,... and also in various other websites and books in Dutch. Thanks for your attention. --Pejman (talk) 01:02, 23 July 2010 (UTC)--Pejman (talk) 01:02, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Asian Mexican

Regarding Asian Mexicans, how come different peoples like Chinese, Indians, etc. are all classified as Asian by USA? Same thing with other countries. If there's pages for Afro-Mexican, white Mexican (Euro and Arab), mestizo (mixed) Mexican, and Amerindian Mexican, then why not Asian (Oriental) Mexican? I only added India people to "Asian" because many gov'ts do so and I hate to call Orientals "Asian", but since all pages here about "Asians" refer to Orientals and sometimes Indians (only USA people call them Asians, and only Brits call people from Indian subcontinent "Asian"), I decided to call that page "Asian Mexican", HOWEVER, i was too LAZY to post any sources since it took me a long time to make the article (I did copy sourced info from other articles here on wiki).--Fernirm (talk) 20:35, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Asian Mexican

You may also wish to consider using the the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Asian Mexican, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Full of provocative statements - in fact not one source is provide for the entire article - Original creator even admits - I don't know if they're true, I just copied info from OTHER WIKI articles

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Moxy (talk) 08:56, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Replied. Hopefully this nonsensical article will be deleted soon. cab (talk) 08:19, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Stop plz!

Dear user, once again I have to ask you to stop giving baseless comments and insulting! I am not a politician and have no political agenda. In The Netherlands there various Persian political groups with different ideas and there are pictures from various events in the page as well. Please be a little respectful. Otherwise I will report your acts to the senior editors of Wikipedia --Pejman (talk) 19:22, 29 July 2010 (UTC)--Pejman (talk) 19:22, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Lu-Yu

If you do a search deleting wiki, myblog and the offical blog, you will find info in Chinese, if you look at my blog or any of my writings they are for the promotion of tea culture education not the "selling of tea" and the institute has classes, cert. and found in lonely planet as a source for education, search "陸羽茶藝中心" -wikipedia -teaarts -luyutea1980, i do many writings on tea cultur in english, an example is Tenfu Tea College. icetea (talk) 17:51, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Asian Mexican

[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Asian Mexican] just FYI ...Moxy (talk) 17:51, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Latin Americans in the United Kingdom

An article that you have been involved in editing, Latin Americans in the United Kingdom, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 14:44, 2 August 2010 (UTC) Cordless Larry (talk) 14:44, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Somalis in the United Kingdom

Hi. I'm just contacting people who have recently shown an interest in editing the Somalis in the United Kingdom article. There is a discussion going on on the NPOV noticeboard that you might want to contribute to. It relates to these discussions on the article's talk page. Cordless Larry (talk) 07:19, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 August 2#Low Corean

Hi, thank you for a great contribution. If you consider High Korean to be suitable for a disamb page, might I invite you to just boldly convert it? This would be uncontroversial so there is no need to wait for deletion before creating it. If you have a few minutes to spare, perhaps you might like to take a look at this page? As you will see, there is a long list of other, possibly fictitious, Korean language redirects. Any others that are fictitious or misleading could be added to the nomination. Bridgeplayer (talk) 17:18, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Your complaint at ANI about Shantosh5000

Hello CaliforniaAliBaba. Your argument at WP:ANI#Shantosh5000 repeatedly ignoring copyrights would be more persuasive if you could amplify it with some diffs for recent copyright violations by this editor from the last four weeks. Many of the notices on his talk page are old. The only thing we know for sure is that he won't talk. That is a concern, but only if the copyright problems are fully documented. For instance, you could supply diffs, and give the page number for the place that the material was taken from. I tried to check the articles you refer to, Indian Argentine and Indians in Brazil, but they do not exist. EdJohnston (talk) 04:04, 9 August 2010 (UTC)