Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nehemia Gordon

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The result was delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 06:41, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nehemia Gordon

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No indication of notability, no significant coverage in reliable sources. There was a broken link to a Jerusalem Post article, but the Wayback Machine couldn't recover it; searching for Gordon on the Jerusalem Post website didn't bring up anything. Google News didn't find anything better than this, not useful for writing an encyclopedia article about Gordon. Huon (talk) 23:47, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. The bibliography consists of nothing but the subject's works and there are no references. However, searching Google News turns up some decent coverage, such as this one and apparently this one (behind a paywall but Google's excerpt suggests decent coverage). So even though the article does nothing to demonstrate notability, we don't keep or delete based on sources in the article, we decide based on sources available. ~Anachronist (talk) 05:35, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - What the Daily Caller writes about Gordon is a paraphrase of his "about" page and the author profile of his blog post here. I do not think that's helpful for our purposes; to me it doesn't look like independent reporting. Regarding Israel Today, the Google excerpt says, "Nehemia is certainly one if not the leading Hebrew scholar in this regard. And certainly Yehovah the God of my forefathers wanted us to know his name and to say his name." - That's someone's personal opinion; opinion pieces of that kind are not reliable sources (except for the author's opinion). Huon (talk) 08:42, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, it lacks independent sources. As far as Karaite Jews are concerned, Nehemiah Gordon is famous especially among certain Christian sects where he needs no introduction. But there are more notable people relevant Karaite Jews in the world especially for example Mikhail Kizilov, Yuval Warshai, Dan Shapira and Avraham Qanaï. 188.29.16Etc.BlahBlahBlah (talk) 06:13, 10 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 22:11, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 22:11, 15 February 2018 (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.