Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bahram Nouraei (rapper)
There is a substantial web footprint for this artist even on an English-language search. Wikipedia is both a serious encyclopedia and a pop culture compendium, like it or not. We have high bars for certain topics and low bars for others — recording artists and TV personalities being among the lowest. This artist, verging on political dissident status it would seem, SHOULD be included here. In this particular case, for me anyway, another factor to consider is that this individual is the subject of a page in the Arabic WP. Does that satisfy the notability guideline here? No. But it does help me to rationalize the desirability of applying the POLICY of |Ignore All Rules in this case. With all due respect to the nominator, I'm not sure why this deletion nomination is being fought to the last ditch (8 comments and counting). Sure, I concur, this one is soft in the sourcing department. But, bottom line: ''this piece should be in Wikipedia
— User:Carrite, 18:08, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:IAR (Wikipedia:Ignore all rules)