Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/World Organization for Islamic Services

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The result was no consensus. Cirt (talk) 23:11, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

World Organization for Islamic Services

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I removed the {{db-corp}} tag because notability is asserted by the external links. Furthermore, because this is an Iranian publishing company, there may be sources in Iranian. An AfD will allow editors who know Iranian to search for sources.

A Google News Arhive search returns no sources to establish notability, while a Google Books search returns mainly books that are published by the company or passing mentions in other books that cite books published by it. This company appears to fail Wikipedia:Notability (companies) and Wikipedia:Verifiability. I will withdraw this deletion nomination if reliable sources are found to establish notability. Cunard (talk) 09:40, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:09, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:09, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 02:11, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as a fairly important publisher . About 250 of their publications are in WorldCat, which is a pretty good showing as almost no WorldCat library collects in this area. the lack of references is another example of cultural bias. DGG ( talk ) 03:20, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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