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The result was no consensus. Nakon 02:52, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Vidadi Muradov (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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No real references that I can read. (This is the en wiki, after all). A search brought up self-published sources, I can't any references to the official public office he holds. His degree is confusing. He does scientific research for the president on carpet designs. He's a professor of decorative applied art. The whole article is very, very confusing and at best is so completely culturally out of touch with anything that I am familiar it resembles a hoax.   Bfpage |leave a message  01:29, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My review: this news(?) article reads like a press release from his carpet company. A newspaper review on his book about carpets. Carpets in the museum and the carpet company. The man's title of the article under discussion is mentioned briefly in passing in the previous article. This is an article that is really about a very specific, very regional, ethnic carpeting, not about the man.

site:news.google.com/newspapers gave no returns. There are books, all with the same title, different years returned from a google book search, but they are unavailable in any form or library. They do list the man as the author. I am guessing the books are catalogs of carpets but that is conjecture. The books are not probably about the man. There are three citations only in an intelligible form from google scholar. No returns from JSTOR. Even after reading the poor translations to English, I still can't grasp the notability of this biography of this living person or even figure out what he does. If someone were to ask me how the encyclopedia was better for having this article, I wouldn't have an answer.

  Bfpage |leave a message  02:09, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. The subject is described as a leading academic expert on Azerbaijani rugs. I am fully prepared to acknowledge that such an expert, on a topic of considerable importance to his country's economy and culture, could be notable. What's not at all clear is that the case for that notability can be made here. For whatever it's worth, note that the Russian Wikipedia version of this article is currently being considered for deletion and (as best I can follow the discussion from the Google translation) the editors there are expressing similar concerns. Input from editors knowledgeable in the subject matter would obviously be valuable. --Arxiloxos (talk) 03:18, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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• possibly Keep Apparently an expert in his subject. But I too would like to wait to see the result at the ruWP. DGG ( talk ) 06:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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