Talk:Amou Haji

Contested deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because... (It does not meet criteria for speedy deletion.) --Gazozlu (talk) 19:42, 25 October 2022 (UTC) ​Clearly meets significant coverage.Gazozlu (talk) 19:45, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by BlueMoonset (talk) 00:24, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
Nomination's issues has not been fixed, and has two template tags. Closing as unsuccessful.

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• ... that Amou Haji died at 94, after washing for the first time since more than 50 years? Source: https://www.corriere.it/cronache/22_ottobre_25/uomo-piu-sporco-mondo-morto-94-anni-dopo-essere-tornato-lavarsi-c6590964-546b-11ed-a58a-ad027d5a5146.shtml
  • Reviewed:Template:Did you know nominations/Dangers of the Mail ‎
  • Comment: Will do the QPQ later.  Done

5x expanded by Dr Salvus (talk). Self-nominated at 22:19, 28 October 2022 (UTC).

• I suppose work is still being done to the page and I'll come round and complete the review in the near future, but right now it seems in need of much cleanup (stilted grammar, choppy sentences, typos, downright strange expressions like "he was repeatedly immortalised smoking a cigarette five or six times" (???)). Reads like a bunch of random news clippings lumped together to pass off as an "encyclopedic entry". Let me know when it's actually ready for review. Cheers, Kingoflettuce (talk) 22:54, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

• Kingoflettuce, please review it again. Dr Salvus 22:27, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Apologies for the tardy follow-up, but I'm afraid that the same criticism of the article looking like a bunch of news items cobbled together still applies (some chunks copied verbatim according to Earwig). Too much extraneous info - see WP:NOTNEWS! The nominator's recent "gaming the system" fiasco elsewhere (which also revolved around issues of copyediting/redundant info) doesn't exactly inspire confidence either. Cheers, Kingoflettuce (talk) 07:22, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Kingoflettuce, there was not bad faith here. Dr Salvus 08:37, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Regardless, something needs to be done about how this article currently reads. Kingoflettuce (talk) 08:46, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

I'm currently ill. Don't know when I can fix. Dr Salvus 08:51, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

I don't see issues with the article. Maybe this article doesn't have enough info for the DYK. Dr Salvus 21:05, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

• If the article issues can't be addressed then there is no path forward for the nomination anymore. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 17:04, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

GA Review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Amou Haji/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Freedom4U (talk · contribs) 02:35, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

I'm failing this GA nomination under criteria one of WP:GAFAIL. Here are some of the issues I've found that would need to be addressed before a renomination:

• The article is poorly organized with unrelated sentences smashed together into paragraphs; many of the sentences also suffer from redundancy.
• There are a number of examples of prose that are neither clear nor concise:
  • Once, "a few young men" attempted to forcefully give him a shower, but he managed to escape. - This and the below sentence also have unnecessary quotation marks.
  • His skin was covered with "soot and pus" as a result of his refusal to bathe.
  • Since he feared that soap and water might cause disease, he did not bathe for over 60 years from c. 1957–62 until shortly before his death in 2022. - This sentence can be condensed and made clearer.
• It was claimed that he had become a hermit due to "emotional setbacks" after a heartbreak. - Weasel word. Who?
• He claimed that these attempts to care for him made him sad. The word "claimed" seems inappropriate and casts undue doubt on his statement
• Author Claudia Hammond described Haji as having a "face and beard caked in mustard-brown earth" and that he "blends in" to the "barren landscape of southern Iran" and that, when he sits still, he "resembles a rock". Unnecessary over-quotation.
• See WP:INTOTHEWOULDS. This article uses the word "would" where it is is inappropriate.

In addition to these concerns, I have serious doubts that this article meets the "broad in its coverage" standard required of Good Articles. I see the article mentions the documentary The Strange Life of Amou Haji, I would suggest taking a look at it and potentially incorporating it into the article. As it stands, the article does not provide enough information about Haji. :3 F4U (they/it) 02:35, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Actual name?

What was his actual name? toobigtokale (talk) 22:35, 12 March 2024 (UTC)