Talk:Majid Adibzadeh

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Notability

From the discussions at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Majid Adibzadeh it remains doubtful whether Majid Adibzadeh meets the notability criteria for a Wikipedia article. From standard searches it is clear that he is not in any sense notable outside Iran. Notability inside Iran is harder to assess.

The next question is which set of criteria should be applied. Early versions of this article treated him as an academic, but he clearly isn't one, with no scholarly career beyond his doctorate. The current version more clearly treats him as a writer. In that case the relevant criteria are at WP:AUTHOR:

Creative professionals

Authors, editors, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, artists, architects, and other creative professionals:

The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors.
The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory, or technique.
The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of an independent and notable work (for example, a book, film, or television series, but usually not a single episode of a television series) or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews.
The person's work (or works) either (a) has become a significant monument, (b) has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) has won significant critical attention, or (d) is represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums.

Does he meet these criteria? Not obviously. But if he does then it should be demonstrated by providing quotations (with translations) from sources which clearly indicate this. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 16:16, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Persian translation is hard for me. I'm not an expert on this type of text. These sources is about politics and humanities. But look, a significant number of quotes in these sources that cover the thoughts and works of this author: for example, This quote:

"The question that the author intends to raise is why modernity acted as a fertile and dynamic power in the West and therefore lead to the critical humanities, responsible for the social problems; but in Iran it concluded to an entirely different result. The governors started the reconstruction and modernization of social institutions in Iran, but unlike the Western countries, in spite of establishing new Western style schools and universities, and teaching Western Humanities, critical social sciences were not created and Iranian thought remained unproductive. This question is vital and the book should be appreciated for proposing such a question. Many scholars during the last decades have tried to get to the bottom of this question to study about this question, and the author claims that they mostly focused on the challenges between tradition and modernity. Beyond this, he instead wants to study the contradictions between modern phenomenon, like the state, university and humanities."

This subject is notable for these reasons:

Independent cover (Different articles and reviews. Different magazines and newspapers. Different writers and critics.)
Deep cover (Many details on review)
Significant coverage (Many secondary sources)
Covering his thoughts and his works

This cover is enough in notability for writers. Pareparvaz (talk) 08:03, 25 July 2018 (UTC)— Pareparvaz (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

never mind Pareparvaz (talk) 11:04, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion has now been archived but can be found at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive272#Majid Adibzadeh. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 08:01, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

See more articles and reviews:

And cited in scholarly works and academic journals:

Pareparvaz (talk) 11:44, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]