Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walid Fitaihi

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The result was Delete. 7 08:22, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Walid Fitaihi

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Subject appears to be a reasonably accomplished but otherwise non-notable endocrinologist. Won a single award for something whilst doing residency, but nothing notable since. Not much on Google except that he had to apologise to the Jewish community in Boston for some remarks made in 2007. Nothing to really set him aside from thousands of other endocrinologists worldwide. Uncategorized. Looks like some minor COI issues creeping in as well. --Legis (talk - contribs) 03:41, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:30, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Are you kidding me? Article appears to have been written as a joke, probably by the subject's daughter. "Dr. Walid Fitaihi, in 1995 fathered a beautiful girl called mariam fitaihi, who is currently in Gerard Murphy's Chemistry & english class in school, this could be quite a PROBLEM for Dr.Fitaihi." He has a few publications at Google Scholar, but nowhere near enough to pass WP:ACADEMIC. He was in the local news briefly in 2004, again not enough for notability. The article is lacking in basic biographical detail but is not worth fixing. --MelanieN (talk) 16:00, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Courcelles 21:19, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Come on, folks, let's get rid of this unserious article, which was apparently written by the subject's daughter. It is an embarrassment to Wikipedia. --MelanieN (talk) 16:09, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BusterD (talk) 02:55, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. It appears that the majority of the content was written by the subject himself or at least someone using his name as a user name. On the other hand, he apparently didn't create the article. The part about the daughter, which I have removed as vandalism, was added by yet another user, probably one of the daughter's high school classmates. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:31, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The person who added Fitaihi also added International Medical Center, if anyone is curious.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 05:08, 29 December 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79[reply]

Comment. I am finding some sources that show that Fitaihi is somewhat notable over in Saudi Arabia, but I'm unsure as to the reliability of the sources since I'm not familiar with the papers and sites over there. Here's what I found: [1], [2], [3] (this link had a youtube video that had Fitaihi being interviewed on a news channel, but I'm unfamiliar with the channel. Probably not a notable channel or interview and I know that the page I posted isn't, but thought I'd list it in case the interview is notable.), [4] (this one shows where he refused someone treatment, unsure of reliability of source, but is sorta interesting), [5] (I hate linking to youtube videos and especially hate linking to two of them, but here's an interview he did with CSNBC Arabia.). There's also a few stories in English that talks about him in reference to articles, although I'm having trouble finding those articles due to language barriers and such. [6], [7], [8], [9], I'm not entirely sure of his notability but he does seem to be more notable than I initially thought he was. Evidently while he was in Boston (if I'm correct in presuming that this is the same guy), he made some not so nice comments about people of the Jewish religion that got a flurry of media coverage. That's sort of "one person one event", so I'm not sure if that'd count towards his notability. [10] I was initially going to vote delete, but I'm honestly not sure on this one. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 06:03, 29 December 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79[reply]

Very weak keep. I did a major cleanup and I think that he just barely squeaks by general notability standards, but I'm still pretty unsure as to how notable he truly is.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 07:06, 29 December 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79[reply]

Comment. The only thing I am certain of is that Fitaihi (or potentially someone who knows him) did edit this account. I noticed that at one point edits were made that were identical to a biography that Fitaihi had posted on his youtube account.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 07:08, 29 December 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79[reply]

Comment Thanks for the cleanup, Tokyogirl; much improved. However, I still find him lacking in notability per WP:BIO or WP:ACADEMIC. Being director of a hospital does not amount to notability. BTW the hospital, International Medical Center, should also be considered for deletion. --MelanieN (talk) 16:15, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Closing administrator please note: there is a redirect to this page from Waleed Fitihi, an alternate spelling of his name. If the result is "delete", the redirect page should also be deleted. --MelanieN (talk) 16:17, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Good enough rationale for me. I'm striking my weak keep since I wasn't really feeling all that confident about the keep to begin with.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 03:30, 30 December 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79[reply]

Delete regardless of the sources, I don't think the article will ever acquire many more reliable sources than it has. —Ed!^(talk) 20:27, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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