Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reza Jabari

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 was merge to Kish Air Flight 707. SilkTork *^YES! 14:46, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reza Jabari

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This person seems to have no lasting notability. He did a couple of very unusual things, and also served time in prison for one of them, but now he is just an ordinary person getting on with his life. Kitfoxxe (talk) 22:08, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Kish Air Flight 707. Mandsford (talk) 22:26, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea. Kitfoxxe (talk) 16:22, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

weak Delete, more reliable sources must be provided to establish notability . Rirunmot (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:47, 2 January 2010 (UTC).[reply]

I don't think there is any question about his existence or the facts of his story. I know WP, following the news media and general public interest and imagination, considers a crime taking place on an airliner to be much more "notable" than one taking place on the ground. His intention was not to harm anyone but just to escape from Iran. An article on the incident should be enough.Kitfoxxe (talk) 16:25, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I believe that the entry has significance in the broad context of the Iran-Israel relationship, which incidentally is far broader than what the general public is led to believe: people tell me that if one walks through an arbitrary neighbourhood in Israel, one is more likely to hear some Persian music coming out of people's houses than music from any other country --- this is certainly the case in such place as Jerusalem. The interested might like to watch this wonderful Persian dance, performed by Miriam Peretz in Haifa in 2005. But aside from this, the possibility of hijacking Iranian passenger planes and possibly diverting them to Israel seems to be a recurrent theme in the Iranian motion pictures. Two examples that come to mind are: Low Heights (2002) by Ebrahim Hatamikia, and The Outcasts, 2 (2009) by Masoud Dehnamaki. Incidentally, Jabari should be Jabbari (the word shares the same root with the word Algebra, which is the same as Al-Jabr, so that Jabari cannot be correct). --BF 21:08, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please write an article on it then. Maybe "Israel in Iranian pop-culture"? Kitfoxxe (talk) 23:50, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kitfoxxe: Good idea, but unfortunately at present I have no spare time to spend on such project. --BF 19:14, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Kitfoxxe (talk) 01:38, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect/Merge per Mandsford. Doc Quintana (talk) 23:16, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Very interesting and very usefull info.--Mbz1 (talk) 00:38, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge or redirect to Kish Air Flight 707 per WP:BLP1E. Sandstein 06:43, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:BLP1E. Adds no extra information to Kish Air Flight 707 which can be "merged". I think even redirect is not required. Geeteshgadkari (talk) 10:10, 10 January 2010 (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.