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Originally created by some pro-Israeli sock puppet in 2008 that has since been perma-banned? Very sporadic updates since then. Cannot find any independent secondary sources (Washington Institute is main source of all the info, his employer, and is also a pro-Israeli thinktank?), and this reads more like some kinda
WP:RESUME than anything else. I cannot think of any good way to salvage this without useful secondary and independent sources.
User:Sawerchessread (
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22:30, 27 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep. The books alone are not enough but I found and added plenty of reviews (11 for 3 books), giving him a pass of
WP:AUTHOR. I agree that there is also a case for
WP:PROF#C1. The nominator's interjection of politics into the rationale for deletion is also troublesome. —
David Eppstein (
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00:29, 28 May 2024 (UTC)reply
thank you for edits and review citations.
i didnt see matthew levitts citation count actually, kinda agree on wp:prof 1 now that he is notable, so i kinda change to weak keep maybe. not sure about wp:author.
pointing out the politics is not troubling i think. his page reads very much like a wp:resume and does not indicate that the think tank he works at has been identified by both nytimes and others as both founded by aipac, run with money from aipac donors, and very much proisraeli.
much of his work reflects this bias (i found his article by seeing folks uncritically cite his work as bedrock truth on wikipedia pushing that muslim brotherhood/hamas had infiltrated many if not most muslim orgs)
also for future help in determining the notability of these types of articles, how did you find such book reviews?
honestly asking, the first few page of google search when i was looking were all just his own work or the think tank, didnt know where else to search or find other sources and would love new ways to find sources for articles
User:Sawerchessread (
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04:17, 28 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I found many of them using a JSTOR advanced search with his name as a quoted string, checking the box restricting the search results to reviews. With that as a base, I filled in some more searching Google Scholar for works whose titles included the title of the book. E.g. search string intitle:"Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God". —
David Eppstein (
talk)
07:54, 28 May 2024 (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
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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.
Originally created by some pro-Israeli sock puppet in 2008 that has since been perma-banned? Very sporadic updates since then. Cannot find any independent secondary sources (Washington Institute is main source of all the info, his employer, and is also a pro-Israeli thinktank?), and this reads more like some kinda
WP:RESUME than anything else. I cannot think of any good way to salvage this without useful secondary and independent sources.
User:Sawerchessread (
talk)
22:30, 27 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep. The books alone are not enough but I found and added plenty of reviews (11 for 3 books), giving him a pass of
WP:AUTHOR. I agree that there is also a case for
WP:PROF#C1. The nominator's interjection of politics into the rationale for deletion is also troublesome. —
David Eppstein (
talk)
00:29, 28 May 2024 (UTC)reply
thank you for edits and review citations.
i didnt see matthew levitts citation count actually, kinda agree on wp:prof 1 now that he is notable, so i kinda change to weak keep maybe. not sure about wp:author.
pointing out the politics is not troubling i think. his page reads very much like a wp:resume and does not indicate that the think tank he works at has been identified by both nytimes and others as both founded by aipac, run with money from aipac donors, and very much proisraeli.
much of his work reflects this bias (i found his article by seeing folks uncritically cite his work as bedrock truth on wikipedia pushing that muslim brotherhood/hamas had infiltrated many if not most muslim orgs)
also for future help in determining the notability of these types of articles, how did you find such book reviews?
honestly asking, the first few page of google search when i was looking were all just his own work or the think tank, didnt know where else to search or find other sources and would love new ways to find sources for articles
User:Sawerchessread (
talk)
04:17, 28 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I found many of them using a JSTOR advanced search with his name as a quoted string, checking the box restricting the search results to reviews. With that as a base, I filled in some more searching Google Scholar for works whose titles included the title of the book. E.g. search string intitle:"Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God". —
David Eppstein (
talk)
07:54, 28 May 2024 (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
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