Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AL-BASSAM FAMILY

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 DELETE. — JIP | Talk 09:08, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Non-notable. Please be sure to get the pages that redirect to this one on delete. — ceejayoz ^talk 00:01, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nomination. — ceejayoz ^talk 00:01, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete- non-notable. Also the pages Al bassam, ALBASSAM and Al-bassam are redirects to this and need to go as well. Reyk 00:08, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Dont Delete Our friends mentioned that the article is non-notable but did not mention the reason. User:Bo3oaf
  • Well, for one, Google turns up very few results for a family name. — ceejayoz ^talk 00:20, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • 10 pages of accurate results in google are not few. Add to them the results if searched with in Arabic text. From what I know, Wikipedia does not consider language as a ligitimate reason to delete an article. There are many companies, products and schools named after this Family name. If time is given to me, I would provide further information. 24.71.223.140 00:38, 24 October 2005 (UTC)User: Bo3oaf[reply]

• Dont Delete My account is new here and when I logged in, it asked me if I want to start a Norah article! I dont think that this family name is less notable than my own name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Norah (talk • contribs) 20:28, 23 October 2005
  • Actually, it asked if you wanted to create your user page, User:Norah, which is not a part of the main Wikipedia namespace and thus permitted. Bo3oaf is free to create User:Bo3oaf without interference. — ceejayoz ^talk 00:32, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Also, please sign your name with four tildes when commenting on non-article pages, like so: ~~~~. — ceejayoz ^talk 00:35, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nomination. TheMadBaron 06:59, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: the 556 Google hits of ceejayoz's search above is widely off the mark, and doesn't seem to take into consideration that this is an Arabic name. A search for "al-Bassam", in Latin letters, gives 34,000 hits in Google. I haven't looked very far down the list, and an Arabic search may give better or more relevant results. Both regular Google and Google News seem to indicate that there are some notable Saudis and other Arabs with this name, but I can't verify that they actually belong to one and the same family. Any reference for that? Uppland 07:18, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Move to Al-Bassam and cleanup. There was a Abdul Moshin Hamad Al-Bassam who was an astronaut payload specialist; a religious scholar named Sheikh Abdullah Al-Bassam, &c. So it would serve as a disambig page, like Smith, Jones, Johnson, &c. — RJH 16:39, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Seems sorta silly to disambig when there are no articles to disambiguate. — ceejayoz ^talk 18:51, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep 212.138.47.21 17:49, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• dont delete 195.229.242.54 20:41, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• dont delete — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.229.242.53 (talk • contribs) 17:29, 25 October 2005
• dont delete 212.138.64.178 09:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete' non notable vanity. chowells 19:27, 26 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.