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Middle East

Money20/20 Middle East


Money20/20 Middle East (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I just accepted Money20/20 out of AfC, but there's a series of paid news, press releases, promotional materials. Money20/20 Middle East should at least be combined there and both must be cut down. Might fail WP:GNG regardless. CherryPie94 🍒🥧 (talk) 20:29, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Booza


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Information Note: This formal merge proposal was originally opened on the article's talk page. Following the March 2026 RfC, formal merge discussions are now held at AfD rather than the historical Proposed article mergers process (PAM). I've moved the discussion accordingly per WP:TPO.
Moved from Talk:Booza § Proposal to merge into dondurma
 – FaviFake (talk) 15:56, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
Proposal to merge into Dondurma

This appears to overlap significantly with dondurma, this phenomenon of very similar foods with shared origins is common in Ottoman cuisine and its common for WP articles on those foods to talk about this foods in an abstract sense and list all the regional names and variations. There are some sources that treat those the same:

  • Grow, Rachael (2 February 2024). "Booza: The Stretchy Ice Cream From The Middle East". Mashed. Retrieved 17 June 2026. "Booza is almost identical to the Turkish ice cream dondurma"
  • Rahmanan, Anna Ben Yehuda. "Meet the Middle Eastern ice cream poised to swarm social media". Fortune. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  • Rahmanan, Anna Ben Yehuda (13 April 2023). "8 ice cream styles from around the world". Nat Geo Travel. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  • Crowley, Chris (15 June 2018). "A New Haven for Stretchy Middle Eastern Ice Cream Has Landed in Williamsburg". Grub Street. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  • The entry for دندرمة in Khayr al-Din al-Asadi's Encyclopedia equates the two and calls booza a modern term for dondurma.

Also, like booza, dondurma is sometimes used as an umbrella term for ice-cream in some older Arabic dictionaries/dialects:

Some sources treat them as distinct yet similar:

Besides the common geography and preparation technique, the information overlap in the history section is what motivates me to merge the most, as the overlap there is very large. 2kbfloppadisk (talk) 08:49, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

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  • Merge Thanks for providing these sources. While I'm sure we may get some gastronationalism about the origin, terminology, or exact recipe of ice cream popular in Turkey or Arab countries, these are very similar concepts of ice cream with thickening agents that would be better presented together. Individually there's barely enough content to justify splits from List of ice cream varieties by country#Syria and List of ice cream varieties by country#Turkey, but as a single article it seems fine and adequately notable. Ngram doesn't show a clear winner in either name being more common in English. Reywas92Talk 18:44, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
    I'm glad you pointed out the notability issue, because I couldn't find enough sources to establish the notability of booza as a standalone article (I do consider my self well-informed about this topic), at least not without copy pasting the shared history bits from dondurma related sources, mainly books by Priscilla Mary Isin. 2kbfloppadisk (talk) 21:06, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

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Khalil Abdel-Karim


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Found on random pages. Tagged for notability failure for 17 years. Abysmally sourced and atrociously written, far below the minimum threshold for WP:BIO. Geschichte (talk) 06:00, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

BioWadi


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Purely promotional, fails WP:NCORP. Mariamnei ✦ reach out 🕊️ 12:39, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

  • Delete, total spam. Probably could have been speedied under G11.MediaKyle (talk) 12:56, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Mohamed Light

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After doing before, there are definitely no sigcov at all and then the Arabic sources that was provided yesterday is not valid since this is not yet deemed realible here in English Wikipedia. This this as a second attempt. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 19:37, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

  • Keep He easily clears WP:GNG AND WP:NPLAYER with massive coverage from major outlets. non-english reliable sources
Massive coverage with no sigcov at all, yes. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 05:12, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Iran

Azarshahr railway station


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Fails WP:GEOLAND because this is not a village but instead just an abadi, which are explicitly excluded from GEOLAND because they can be literally anything (farms, bridges, pumps, factories etc.).

Also fails WP:NSTATION due to lack of significant coverage in reliable sources. The rail-news.ir source is just a list of every railway station in Iran. Searching using the Farsi name I fail to find anything either - the best is this blog article on a real-state sales advertising website.

This is one of the Iranian "village" articles mass-created by Carlossuarez46. Previously prodded but prod removed in 2022 with the reason given as "deprod; the station is probably notable". However, the station does not pass the notability standard for railway stations. FOARP (talk) 08:09, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

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  • Delete - per nom. This is not a notable station. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:19, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete - Neither a village nor a notable railway station. –dlthewave ☎ 17:20, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Kurdistan Students Association


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Not finding any additional sources, seems to fail WP:NORG. Mariamnei ✦ reach out 🕊️ 13:08, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Kurki Mokhtar Coffee Cooperative


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Clear failure of WP:GEOLAND as this is not about a village but instead about a coffee-house belonging to someone called Kukri Mokhtar ("co-operative" is an apparent mistranslation by the article-creator, machine translation renders this as "Kurki Mokhtar coffee house").

The Iranian census gathers data according to abadi, which are rural localities that can include cafes, factories, bridges, farms, pumps, dams, mines and a range of other features found in the Iranian countryside, that do not even need to actually ever have been populated. Being listed as an abadi is therefore not a form of legal recognition conferred on a populated settlement.

As explained further at Wikipedia:ABADI#What can be a village in Iran?, for a location to become officially a village in Iran it must at least have a population of 100 people and 20 families. There are other requirements, but this is a numerical one allowing easy assessment, and it is clear that with 39 people this location would not meet it.

This page was mass-created in violation of WP:MASSCREATE (which was in force in at the time) by Carlossuarez46. On the same day he created this article, he created at least 200 other articles. I say "at least" because a significant number will since have been deleted and not included in this count.

This was deprodded in 2022 with the comment "decline prod. Appears to meet WP:GEOLAND as a populated, legally recognized place, per the presence of a Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran reference in the article.". However, abadi such as this are explicitly excluded from WP:GEOLAND and this therefore is not a valid rationale to keep the article.

Please see my essay WP:ABADI for more examples of articles like this which have been deleted. FOARP (talk) 15:19, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

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  • Delete I didn’t realise we still had some of this junk from Carlos Suarez lying around. Mccapra (talk) 16:55, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
    There's still absolutely loads of it. I've been PRODing a lot of it but this was was already prodded so it has to go to AFD. I estimate there's another 4000 articles at least that are about places that aren't likely to be villages. FOARP (talk) 17:42, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
    Case in point: Traffic Police Station. FOARP (talk) 18:01, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Water Mafia in Iran


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I propose merging because the full context is better explained at Water scarcity in Iran and the term fails WP:GNG. The article cites some sources of questionable reliability, such as Al Arabiya (a Saudi Arabian-owned outlet), and news coverage on this topic has dropped off since Trump used it in a speech last year in Saudi Arabia.

Most of the cited sources focus on the general topic of water scarcity in Iran anyways. Only one section in this article specifically focuses on the term. Bridget (talk) 17:51, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Not an expert on WP:LLMs, but I do see some signs of it in the writing style and structure of the article. Merging to Water scarcity in Iran, which already has LLM issues, may do more harm than just redirecting. मल्ल (talk) 01:29, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Tang-e Jedayi


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There are a number of reason why this article should be deleted. The most important of them is that this location is not an village, but an abadi, which are explicitly excluded from the presumption of notability under WP:GEOLAND. Abadi were excluded from GEOLAND because they are named locations that the Iranian census has used as a reference point and can be literally anything (e.g., bridges, pump, shops, factories , banks, farms etc. etc.). For this article to be notable it would have to be a WP:GNG pass, but it clearly isn't.

For this location in particularly the location of it isn't even known (nor could I find it searching around in Kuhestan Rural District on GMaps or searching by name on OpenStreetMap), the low population means it can't be an official village under Iranian law, and the name of the location literally translates as "narrow gap" (i.e., it's likely a feature-name used by the Iranian census as a reference-point, not an actual village). That a population is described for the location is irrelevant - the Iranian census counts the number of people and families at each location regardless of what the location actually is (see this one, since redirected, where they counted the people and families at the Bushehr Nuclear Reactor!).

Additionally, this was an article created in violation of WP:MASSCREATE, as can clearly be seen from the fact that Carlossuarez46 created at least 121 articles on the same day this was created. I say "at least" because the ones that have been deleted in the intervening 13 years won't show up in this search. WP:MASSCREATE was in force on the day this article was created.

Please see my essay WP:ABADI for some examples of articles that have been deleted, as well as this ARBCOM case where the article-creator was desysopped, and this mass-deletion of 13,000 articles that the article-creator created.

This article was prodded, the PROD was removed with the comment "oops--- forgot to delete the template". FOARP (talk) 10:09, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

  • comment I removed the PROD template, and explained on my talk page to FOARP the reason for the weird edit summary. I thought I made an edit with a proper summary on why removing, so there was no reason to repeat it. I think it is misleading to use the summary as an argument to devalue the PROD removal, when the user knows it was a mistake. The template was removed because the reason to delete included that there was no reason to believe that there is any village there, while the references say there is a place with inhabitants, so there is a resson to belive there is such village. I was not to comment here, so I will not argue any longer, but I invite you to read the short conversation at my talk. - Nabla (talk) 14:05, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
    Sorry, but none of this is a reason to keep within our PAGs. The relevant guide is WP:GEOLAND which addresses the notability of Abadi directly (i.e., they aren't presumed notable). Simply being populated doesn't make a locality notable if there's no evidence that it is a meaningful settlement of any kind. The WP:BURDEN is on those arguing for an article to be kept to show that it is in fact a legally-recognised settlement beyond simply being an Abadi. FOARP (talk) 17:00, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
  • delete We do not need to argue this out at length. The abadi problem is well-known and there is no reason to keep these without some evidence that they are settlements beyond the data provided in the Iranian census. Mangoe (talk) 18:15, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete - No evidence of a village. Keep in mind that the census aims to count 'every' inhabitant of the country even though some live in non-notable places or dispersed rural areas that are not villages, so you can't just look at a line in a census spreadsheet and call it a village just because it has a name and number of people. –dlthewave ☎ 19:35, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Abu al-Hasan al-Karaji


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The subject of this biography fails to meet Wikipedia's core criteria under WP:NOTABILITY. The article relies entirely on primary historical documents and medieval polemical texts to highlight the subject as a rare Shafi'i scholar who rejected Ash'arism in his era. While this theological stance is noted in primary records, a comprehensive search yields a complete absence of reliable, independent secondary sources providing detailed, analytical, or comprehensive biographical coverage of Abu al-Hasan al-Karaji. Under WP:PRIMARY and WP:NOTORIGINAL, extracting a historical figure's name from isolated polemic or primary creedal mentions to construct a standalone biographical entry constitutes original research. Because the subject lacks significant, sustained coverage in modern academic historical scholarship, the article should be deleted. Ayaltimo (talk) 18:28, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

The page is merely a translation of the page from the Arabic wiki. I did not find any substantial evidence of Karaji denouncing Ash'aris either. But go ahead and delete the page. I've already saved the page in the Internet Archive machine anyways. There are also tons of articles about scholars that have literally lesser sources than this, but hey, go ahead.User:M. Adrian Jurhami (talk) 08:54, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback. Please note that this nomination is not personal, nor is it about theological stances or biases. It is strictly a routine administrative process based on Wikipedia’s core content standards.
As per WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, the existence of other poorly sourced articles does not justify creating new ones that do not meet guidelines. Furthermore, translation from another language edition does not automatically grant a subject notability if the underlying references do not meet the English Wikipedia's strict requirements for independent, modern secondary scholarship (WP:NOTABILITY). Because we both agree that there is a lack of substantial secondary source evidence for a detailed biography, deletion is the standard encyclopedic procedure to maintain site quality. Respectfully, Ayaltimo (talk) 01:21, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
Speaking of the Arabic Wikipedia, can you contribute their as you do here to correct creeds in that Wikipedia? As many if not most of the scholars that you edited or listed their creeds here as Ash'aris in this Wikipedia such as al-Daraqutni, al-Sulami, Abu Uthman Al-Sabuni, al-Baghawi and others are all listed as "Atharis" in that Arabic Wikipedia since a long time ago. So can you do something to finally fix that?! ~2026-33182-39 (talk) 08:59, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
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  • Keep the sourcing looks fine to me. Mccapra (talk) 22:47, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
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  • Keep as he was a major scholar and is documented in major works and meets notability under WP:SCHOLAR.Dz5t 8O12 (talk) 07:48, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Iran Proposed deletions

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Iraq

Kurdistan Students Association


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Not finding any additional sources, seems to fail WP:NORG. Mariamnei ✦ reach out 🕊️ 13:08, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Iraq proposed deletions WP:PROD

Israel

Erica Spatz


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Does not meet WP:N including WP:PROF including WP:NACADEMIC. Is an associate professor - not even recognized by employer to be a full professor - does not have significant coverage separate from her employer that is promotional and fails to cite sufficient sources to demonstrate the notability. Is clearly not notable. Quaerens-veritatem (talk) 02:58, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

The West, Christians and Jews in Saudi Arabian Schoolbooks


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I do not believe this publication has received significant coverage in reliable sources sufficient to meet WP:GNG or WP:NBOOK. In a WP:BEFORE search, I found no suitable sources. The single cited source is primary and the external links do not mention the subject. Jfire (talk) 05:58, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

By the way, I do not know and do not care of the GNG has been met because regardless, as an unjustified SPONOUT, merge is the only correct outcome. gidonb (talk) 20:18, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete unless an IRS discussing the textbook is found. The two linked sources do not refer to this report, and I don't think a merge would be WP:DUE without third party coverage. Eddie891 Talk Work 20:31, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Idan Rubin


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Doesn't fulfill WP:GNG and/or WP:NBIO AAARC (talk) 05:59, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

English English English


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Has not met GNG since September 2014 and the page's content has not been edited since April 2017. I am proposing deletion as there is no indication of notability. GarethBaloney (talk) 14:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Chaim Gingold


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I propose redirecting to Spore (2008 video game) because the article fails WP:NBIO, the person has not received independent significant coverage in multiple sources. The book, Earth Primer, seems notable (reviews in Wired, Stuff.tv, Common Sense Media) but I don't think he writing the book and co-designing Spore meets requirements in WP:CREATIVE. Mika1h (talk) 13:03, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

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  • Merge selectively as suggested and as reasonable in these circumstances. In particular, the current article relies solely on one interview (a primary source) to support the position that he's involved with the academic side of gaming (per WP:PROF). Please ping me if you add more. Bearian (talk) 12:01, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
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Martin Oliner


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Fails WP:NPOL for his tenure as mayor, as the sourcing is not WP:SIGCOV. The rest of the article primarily consists of a controversial article the subject wrote back in 2025 and controversial statements he made in 2025 (that are not covered by WP:RS. Fails WP:GNG. EaglesFan37 (talk) 03:04, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

keep and/or draftify. the article needs to be improved. i think there is significant coverage about him: his gaza comments , mayor , Holocaust museum board , pier in Boston , his philanthropy , First Lincoln holdings , world zionist congress, moving us embassy , bob marley lawsuit Rainsage (talk) 05:08, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
also, TOI says he was part a delegation of "top Jewish-American leaders" . Tablet says he is 1 of "notable American Jewish leaders". additional sources: Rainsage (talk) 22:20, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
@Rainsage I'm not sure that most of those sources meet WP:SIGCOV, as they seem to be passing mentions. EaglesFan37 (talk) 17:21, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
yes some of it is passing mentions but several articles are solely about him or have several paragraphs about him. i think it is sufficient for an article though of course it is not going to be a super long one. Rainsage (talk) 20:14, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Weak keep based on what's available and to avoid feeding our critics. As mayor of a suburban incorporated village, he's not notable, but he's notable under WP:GNG. Bearian (talk) 03:19, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep but stubify. Sources to establish notability (if marginally) have been shown. In the brief existing article, 170/200 words are about zionism and Gaza. Rjjiii (talk) 03:32, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

List of sacred places in Israel


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I know Wikipedia lists don’t have to be exhaustive but this one seems a particular mess. Without any definition of what exactly “sacred” means it is very hard to scope and could be expanded enormously but to very little purpose. I don’t object to draftifying if anyone wants to work on it but the creator has been blocked for vandalism and if there is a viable topic here, a clean start might make more sense. Mccapra (talk) 12:45, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

  • Delete Agree with Mccapra. Lynngol (talk) 15:48, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Draftify I would be willing to work on this because it is an important topic. Coming up with a definition of sacred should be doable going off the three Abrahamic religions. There is potential for a strong topic here if the time is put in. But unless it's unfixable I err on the side of keeping information on this site. AadamentAardvark (talk)

Without a title/scope change, care would need to be taken to ensure it only contains locations in Israel proper i.e. within the green line. It currently includes some locations across the green line and it would be a straightforward NPOV violation for Wikipedia to describe those as 'in Israel' in wikivoice. Sean.hoyland (talk) 14:24, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep. There are far more than sufficient sources to sustain this under NLIST. A huge kudos for the suggested work above. Can be done in the article, also without draftity. gidonb (talk) 00:25, 12 June 2026 (UTC)
    Agreed with keep, but improving the list overall. There is a ton of reliable sourcing to justify this one as a standalone article. Cheers Doctorstrange617 (talk) 19:30, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
All of them? Not that I know of. Do you have source a for that? From what I could find, there are 142 Jewish sacred places in Israel and the West Bank in the Israeli government list. I counted 4 regular synagogues among these. The Western Wall area operates similarly in practice. That's very few among 15,000 or so synagogues. The list is for the most part gravesides and graveyards. Also some caves, a water tunnel. There is some variety yet also a very clear majority of sites. gidonb (talk) 18:46, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
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Berel Soloveitchik


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rabbi, head of yeshiva i.e. kind of Jewish high school principal; tagged as nn; Unreferenced since Jan 2025 --Altenmann >talk 00:07, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

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Article is premised on original research and synthesis of sources in a user-driven (instead of source-driven) attempt to explain the 'origins of Palestinians'. It was created and signifcantly contributed to by a banned single-purpose account and their sockpuppet(s): Tombah and Rajoub570. It offers no studies about the 'origins of Palestinians', save possibly for the 'Genetics' section, which can be its own, more appropriate article: Genetic studies of Palestinians. The remainder is a hodgepodge of info that users, particularly the creator and his sockpuppet, have collated in an apparent attempt to construct the origins of the modern-day Palestinians. The appropriate destination articles for this material would be Demographic history of Palestine, Palestinians, Palestinian identity, Palestinian nationalism, and others. Made the case for this in October 2024, but never followed through. --Al Ameer (talk) 17:57, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

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  • Delete, pr nominator. Any valuable stuff should be in the Genetic studies on Palestinians (compare Genetic studies on Jews), which presently redirect to Origin of the Palestinians, Huldra (talk) 22:43, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep. I don’t understand the objection. There’s a massive amount of literature cited in this page and just checking a few of the sources it’s clear that the ones I looked at see the question of the origin of Palestinians the topic they’re addressing, which is a prima facie important topic, analogous to Origin of the Albanians, Origin of the Armenians, Origin of the Basques, Origin of the Huns, and other such articles. BobFromBrockley (talk) 02:03, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
    Such articles about nations are not common but at least the ones you listed seem to be based on sources actually tackling the subject. The number of sources for this article is misleading—the sources here, especially beyond the “genetic studies” section, are not attempting to construct the origins of Palestinians, as our article attempts to do. Some discuss broadly the demographic history of Palestine but that is its own subject for which we already have an article. Marrying all these aspects (genetic studies, demographic history of the region, and identity and politics) on our own authority to construct the origins of a people is original research and synthesis (and a fork). While interesting, its for a different forum, not WP. I considered improving the article but when the basis is OR, throwing more info into the hodgepodge will only exacerbate the problem. The best remedy is treating the different aspects separately with Palestinians as the parent article. —Al Ameer (talk) 04:52, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
    There’s two different issues. One is that there’s no such topic as the origin of Palestinians, and therefore we should delete. This is evidently wrong as there are definitely sources in the first part of the article that focus on exactly that topic. It’s a different argument that the current version relies on original research; if that was right the solution wouldn’t be deletion but heavy cuts. BobFromBrockley (talk) 07:23, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
    Hi Bob. There are exactly two sources in the article devoted to a discussion of Palestinian genetic origins, not their origin in general. Our Wikipedia article the Genetic studies on Jews is linked to at the top of two subsections in the Genetics section of this article. And there seems to be no article on Genetic studies of Palestinians, which might be a better place for most of the information in the genetics section here, if anyone is interested in that topic.
    The section on "Linguistics" is already partially covered in Palestinian Arabic and Languages of Palestine (and there is a need for a more comprehensive article on the Linguistic history of Palestine.
    The "Historical analysis" section is mostly on demographics, and already covered at Demographic history of Palestine (region), and the latter half of it is taken from Palestinians (actually several paragraphs here are simply copy pasted from there).
    The section "In Palestinian historical discourse" is mass reproduction of information from Palestinians and Palestinian nationalism. The "In Zionist thinking" section (weird really) is also partially covered in those and other articles like History of the Palestinians.
    And the Palestinian identity section is already covered in that standalone article. I think Al Ameer son is right, this seems to have been created as a POVFORK and its wide scope is not supported by any of the cited sources. Tiamut (talk) Tiamut (talk) 09:04, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
    It may be that it was originally created as a POV fork (although it’s not the case now it’s had much editing that it has a single POV now). But having spent some time with the sources it seems clear to me that this is a real and extremely notable topic that has been the subject of multiple books and articles, and that all of the sections of the article reference sources that are either about the topic directly or devote a lot of time to it. (It isn’t a requirement that all sources are only about the topic- see eg Origin of the Romanians for comparison.) I agree that there is synthesis and perhaps other forms of original research present in the article, such that it needs fairly extensive work, but this doesn’t justify deletion. BobFromBrockley (talk) 09:22, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
    The core problem is not that the article merely contains original research but that its basis is original research and synthesis, and attempting to expand it can only worsen the problem, not fix it. Just as with all other wiki articles about different peoples/nations, our main article Palestinians already serves as the appropriate parent from which the different subarticles discussed here should branch off: genetic studies, identity, nationalism, language, etc, with no need for an OR fork like the subject article. --Al Ameer (talk) 17:25, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
    As I said above, almost everything in the article is already covered at the existing articles I linked to, all of which are linked to from Palestinians anyway. As Huldra pointed out earlier (and I did in my comment), the genetic information not already in Palestinians should be covered in Genetic studies on Palestinians, which is currently missing. I recommend this article be turned into a draft. A new article on Genetics be created, moving information on that here to there. And the remaining information be merged into any of the existing articles it pertains to, and then deleted from the draft. Whatever is left can then be looked at to see if it needs another new article. Tiamut (talk) 09:36, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
    Agree; that is along the lines of what I proposed at the article talk page in the above linked thread. --Al Ameer (talk) 16:50, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
    Sorry I forgot to mention it was your proposal actually. It is the correct course. Thanks for suggesting it. Tiamut (talk) 16:52, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
    It doesn’t matter if all of the current content is or could be covered in other articles, some of which exist and some of which would need to be created. What matters is whether this is a notable topic, and actually your argument convinces me more that it it is. BobFromBrockley (talk) 04:03, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
    Please cite the strongest three sources that discuss the topic of the origins of Palestinians in the expansive scope that this article does (ie. not confined to genetics papers). Tiamut (talk) 05:06, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
    Among the sources (in addition to genetics studies) that show that the origin of the Palestinians is a notable standalone topic are:
    BobFromBrockley (talk) 05:26, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
    Hey Bob. The first four are about the development of national consciousness, and are already cited and discussed in either Palestinian nationalism or Palestinian identity. Nusseibeh's is a biography, not an RS for demonstrating Palestinian origins as a subject of scholarship. Thr article on Canaan (which I added to his article here) is about him and the scholarship he produced with other Palestinians about traditional folk practices and documenting those before they disappeared, and their beliefs that these preserved an ancient way of life. I don't see the relevance of Said's work that you cited to this subject either. Can you explain? Tiamut (talk) 05:34, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
    Sure. Yes. the first four are ALSO cited in other articles, but that's not a problem. Palestinian nationalism and Palestinian identities are obviously overlapping topics, without that making either one less notable as a topic in its own right, and both clearly overlap with this one without making this one less notable. All of them discuss controversy and disagreement over the origins of Palestinians, and how different theories emerged over time. For example, Litvak discusses the emergence of the counter-Zionist idea that the Palestinians were always Arabs and its post-Nakba eclipse by the idea of specific Palestinian ethnogensis; Kimmerling argues that Palestinians emerged as a category in the 1830s. These debates are the entire topic of the collection edited by Heacock.
    Sari Nusseibeh's Once Upon a Country is part-memoir, but it is also an argument for indigeneity: “You see this in our literature, our symbols, and our language, in the city’s architecture, its climate … all of these formed us as a people.”
    The thesis of Salim Tamari's artlcle on Canaan, as you know, is "two separate and exclusive narratives of origin".
    Of these, "the Palestinian folklorist revival of the 1970s and 80s retracted the claims to the land and stressed the specificity of Palestinian culture within nativist ideology that echoed the Phoenician, Pharoanic and Assyrian movements in neighbouring countries. Unlike Canaan 's circle they shed all biblical parallelism and focussed their search for roots on pre-Israelite, pre-biblical putative origins -Canaanite, Jebusite, and Philistine."
    Finally, Blaming the Victims, notable enough to have its own article: the first quarter of it, entitled "The Peters Affair", wherein Said and Norman Finkelstein refute Joan Peters' account of Palestinian ethnogenesis. Her book alone, and the controversy it entailed (see Image and Reality of the Israel–Palestine Conflict) shows the notability of the question of Palestinian origins. To quote one review, “Since 1948, when Israel was declared a nation by the United Nations, the question of the origin of the Palestinians has divided the Middle East— perhaps more than any other issue.” BobFromBrockley (talk) 15:40, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
    Please see my comment below my vote. if the question of origin is such a big one, it doesn't apply to only one party in the conflict. Tiamut (talk) 15:51, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
    Sure and per WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS that isn’t a reason to get rid of this article, which is about an evidently notable topic. BobFromBrockley (talk) 10:20, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
    Also I see most of your recent edits to the article are importing information from already existing articles where they are better covered, while your three of your fellow editors here suggesting the opposite should be done. Tiamut (talk) 06:35, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
@Bobfrombrockley: The counter-argument to yours is that our article Palestinians (and perhaps Palestine (region)) is the appropriate parent article tying in Palestinian identity, Palestinian nationalism, demographic history of Palestine, Languages of Palestine, and the still embryonic coverage of Genetic studies of Palestinians, rather than our pseudo-scientific attempt at 'Origins of the Palestinians', which despite your goodfaith efforts remains an OR-based synthetic fork. Notability is determined by the sources, not what we believe is notable or interesting. The lack of such studies should be a signal to us. Al Ameer (talk) 14:36, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep This is a well-sourced article and a notable subject that is treated as a subject in its own right in sources. There may or may not be original research in it, but as a whole I don't think it is OR. If there are specific instances of it, though, that can be deleted or reworked. Slava570 (talk) 14:44, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete or Draftify so any information useful to the already existing articles here can be added there, and a Genetic studies of Palestinians article, which is the only notable topic covered here without a current article, can be created. This SYNTH article created by sockpuppets to be a POV fork is not encyclopedic, and this topic does not exist as a real phenomenon in this form in serious scholarship. Tiamut (talk) 15:01, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
This is the current introduction to the article:

"Studies on the origins of the Palestinians, encompassing the Arab inhabitants of the former Mandatory Palestine and their descendants, have been conducted in the of population genetics, demographic history, folklore, including oral traditions, linguistics, and other disciplines. Some see the study of the origins of the Palestinians as having implications in debates related to the matter of indigeneity in the region of Palestine and therefore political legitimacy in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict."

Why is only the Palestinians' origins and claims of indigeneity then the topic of this article? Why not also explore that of Israelis/Jews? This is a clear POVFORK. And its polemical OR/SYNTH. Tiamut (talk) 15:47, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
Just found another article whose content overlaps with this one: Indigeneity in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Al Ameer son was correct to point out that we do not need this article. Everything in it is better covered at already existed pages. Tiamut (talk) 05:08, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep. The whole article is useful for quick references. And furthermore, both notable and well-referenced. JeBonSer (talk) 21:30, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
    Most of this article's content is taken from existing articles already linked to from Palestinians. Tiamut (talk) 05:37, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment There is a lot of content here but I find the article to be somewhat rambling. A strong copy editor could make a great improvement. I agree that the section on genetics is strongest and could stand alone as an article. That would leave the remainder for historical and social aspects. There is WP:OVERKILL - and I suspect that where there are multiples there are weak sources that could be removed. So my !vote is: Keep but ask for editing help; remove genetic section to new article, leaving a short paragraph that addresses genetics and point to the stand-alone article. Lamona (talk) 03:03, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Martin Oliner


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Fails WP:NPOL for his tenure as mayor, as the sourcing is not WP:SIGCOV. The rest of the article primarily consists of a controversial article the subject wrote back in 2025 and controversial statements he made in 2025 (that are not covered by WP:RS. Fails WP:GNG. EaglesFan37 (talk) 03:04, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

keep and/or draftify. the article needs to be improved. i think there is significant coverage about him: his gaza comments , mayor , Holocaust museum board , pier in Boston , his philanthropy , First Lincoln holdings , world zionist congress, moving us embassy , bob marley lawsuit Rainsage (talk) 05:08, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
also, TOI says he was part a delegation of "top Jewish-American leaders" . Tablet says he is 1 of "notable American Jewish leaders". additional sources: Rainsage (talk) 22:20, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
@Rainsage I'm not sure that most of those sources meet WP:SIGCOV, as they seem to be passing mentions. EaglesFan37 (talk) 17:21, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
yes some of it is passing mentions but several articles are solely about him or have several paragraphs about him. i think it is sufficient for an article though of course it is not going to be a super long one. Rainsage (talk) 20:14, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Weak keep based on what's available and to avoid feeding our critics. As mayor of a suburban incorporated village, he's not notable, but he's notable under WP:GNG. Bearian (talk) 03:19, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep but stubify. Sources to establish notability (if marginally) have been shown. In the brief existing article, 170/200 words are about zionism and Gaza. Rjjiii (talk) 03:32, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Embassy of Palestine, Kuala Lumpur


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Fails WP:ORG. Only a primary source provided. LibStar (talk) 07:04, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Keep. This just seems like a badly written article to me. I know nothing abt Malaysia, but I found these articles
https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2026/05/1440338/palestine-embassy-urges-global-action-accountability-nakba-anniversary
https://thesun.my/news/malaysia-news/palestine-embassy-refutes-claims-of-soliciting-funds-via-its-channels-bi11807237/#google_vignette 🥤Spravato!🍒/🧋 11:11, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
Keep, per Spravato's sources. ~2026-34148-20 (talk) 12:25, 10 June 2026 (UTC)
And https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2025/12/1327472/malaysias-decades-long-support-palestine-continues-amid-worsening (final part), https://international.astroawani.com/malaysia-news/palestinian-embassy-lauds-malaysia-gsf-mission-safe-return-activists-541805 https://www.sinardaily.my/article/730644/focus/national/walid-abu-ali-bids-farewell-as-palestinian-ambassador-to-malaysia-after-seven-years for example.
Or redirect to List of diplomatic missions of Palestine#Asia (WP:ATD-R). ~2026-34148-20 (talk) 00:06, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
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  • delete as the embassy itself is not notable. Using an embassy as the transmitter of diplomatic activity is routine and unremarkable, and the proffered references are about that activity and only incidentally involve the embassy. Mangoe (talk) 13:00, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

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I just accepted Money20/20 out of AfC, but there's a series of paid news, press releases, promotional materials. Money20/20 Middle East should at least be combined there and both must be cut down. Might fail WP:GNG regardless. CherryPie94 🍒🥧 (talk) 20:29, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

The West, Christians and Jews in Saudi Arabian Schoolbooks


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I do not believe this publication has received significant coverage in reliable sources sufficient to meet WP:GNG or WP:NBOOK. In a WP:BEFORE search, I found no suitable sources. The single cited source is primary and the external links do not mention the subject. Jfire (talk) 05:58, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

By the way, I do not know and do not care of the GNG has been met because regardless, as an unjustified SPONOUT, merge is the only correct outcome. gidonb (talk) 20:18, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete unless an IRS discussing the textbook is found. The two linked sources do not refer to this report, and I don't think a merge would be WP:DUE without third party coverage. Eddie891 Talk Work 20:31, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

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Kurdistan Students Association


Kurdistan Students Association (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Not finding any additional sources, seems to fail WP:NORG. Mariamnei ✦ reach out 🕊️ 13:08, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army


Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I attempted to reach out to the creator of this stub about expanding it further, but they did not respond to me. Upon looking into the source material myself, I found very little. Most sources I found from the period uncritically repeat the group's press release, without providing any further detail. The most significant coverage I could find was a very critical opinion piece from Razan Ghazzawi, which condemns the group's announcement for a variety of reasons. I found very few retrospective assessments of the group, but the ones that do exist seem to all conclude that it was little more than a publicity stunt designed to attract western media attention and support for the SDF, and that it was otherwise militarily insignificant.

I'm coming away completely unconvinced that this meets our general notability guidelines for organisations. If I were to write an expanded version of this article, it would consist of little more than parroting the group's announcement statement followed by a series of reactions and criticisms, with little information in the way of what the group actually did (if they did anything at all). Regrettably, I'm having to submit this article for discussion. As an alternative to deletion, I would suggest redirecting to the relevant section on the International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces, which can be expanded as needed. Grnrchst (talk) 14:36, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

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Battle of Șcheia


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I propose draftifying because this article is entirely unsourced and is likely at least partially AI-generated or AI-assisted. It was previously draftified once for these same issues back in May, but the original author appears to have pasted the exact same content back into mainspace without improvement. Because it has already been moved to draft once, I believe a firm consensus is needed to return it to draftspace. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 21:31, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

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  • Why would we expect a different outcome from repeating the same draftification action? It didn't solve the problem the first time. Contrary to nom, I would strongly prefer Delete. It's almost surely LLM (look at the use of Markup instead of wikilinks), it's not adequately sourced, and it is POV-pushing: While later nationalistic historiography attempted to frame the event differently is not the kind of thing you can say without very good sourcing. M kuhner (talk) 22:12, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Kurdistan Students Association


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Not finding any additional sources, seems to fail WP:NORG. Mariamnei ✦ reach out 🕊️ 13:08, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Sevasti Xanthou


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Notability is not inherited. Simply being the wife of Emmanuil Xanthos is not enough to warrant an article. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:27, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Mehmet Önder Efe


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Does not pass WP:GNG. Kadı Message 15:28, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

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  • Weak keep. Incorrect nomination does not consider WP:PROF. Our article details one editor-in-chief position of a notable journal, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, and he is also editor-in-chief of Springer's Discover Electronics , giving him notability through WP:PROF#C8. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:53, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep. His research profile is respectable without being outstanding, but it's clear from his university's page at https://web.cs.hacettepe.edu.tr/~onderefe/ (mainly in English: don't be misled by the first paragraph) that he is very active in all aspects of academic life. Athel cb (talk) 17:20, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete as per WP:PROF and has no significant coverage in any independent secondary sources. Dz5t 8O12 (talk) 19:32, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep. as per WP:PROF:
    • The person has received a highly prestigious academic award or honor at a national or international level. (TÜBA)
    • The person has held a highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution or major academic society. (dean and vice rector) ~2026-33711-74 (talk) 20:21, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
    Neither dean nor vice rector is the highest level post at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association. That criterion is reserved only to heads of entire universities, which at that university appears to be the rector. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:47, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
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  • Keep. The nomination rests solely on Does not pass WP:GNG, but WP:PROF is an independent alternative to the GNG: an academic who meets any one of its criteria is notable regardless of whether independent secondary biographical coverage exists. The "no significant coverage in secondary sources" objection therefore does not apply to a subject who passes PROF. The subject meets it on two grounds:
WP:PROF#C8 (decisive). He was co-Editor-in-Chief (2017–2022) of Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control — a major, well-established journal (published by SAGE for the Institute of Measurement and Control, in print since 1979 and the subject of a standalone article here) — and is currently editor-in-chief of Springer's Discover Electronics. Holding the top editorial post of an established, notable journal is a textbook C8 pass, as already noted by David Eppstein above.
WP:PROF#C1 (supporting). Google Scholar shows 5,000+ citations across 210+ publications, with several highly cited works in sliding-mode control and quadrotor/UAV control. In a comparatively low-citation field like control engineering, this indicates a substantial impact on the discipline.
I would set aside the C6 argument (dean / vice-rector): as noted above, that criterion is reserved for the head of an entire institution, so it does not apply here. C8 alone is sufficient. ~2026-35146-77 (talk) 22:18, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep: WP:PROF seems to be satisfied; co-editor-in-chief of important scientific journal and impact on higher education (won an award with the textbooks they wrote) TheJoyfulTentmaker (talk) 05:33, 17 June 2026 (UTC)


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Xpanceo


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Fails WP:NCORP. All coverage is routine funding announcements and product demos at trade shows. Nothing better via WP:BEFORE. Kqol • talk 20:19, 19 June 2026 (UTC)


Navneet Mandhani (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Non notable entrepreneur without significant coverage. Sources are either paid or routine. Thilsebatti (talk) 03:19, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

  • Draftify per nom
Dinitrify (talk) 10:58, 12 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep Available sources are significant independent coverage and it meets WP:GNG. It needs more improvemets. Last of The Time (talk) 12:00, 12 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete fails WP:GNG due to a lack of coverage from secondary, reliable sources. Sources in the article mostly fail indepth coverage. jolielover♥talk 08:46, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete - for lack of significant coverage. I don't see anything reliable and, as I've written before, "Forbes is a crust of a shell of a carcass of a formerly reliable source." Bearian (talk) 03:23, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
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