Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nasrollah Hekmat
Sorry to weigh-in here again, but I think there are some assertions that must be corrected. In my opinion WorldCat holdings are to books much like citations are to journal articles: mere presence does not necessarily prove notability, but if a subject has "enough of them" (and the threshold for this is open to good-faith debate, for example adjusting for academic field, for geographic location that might be associated with lower coverage, etc.) then that is a very good indicator of notability. Conversely, ''complete absence'' is a strong indicator of lack of notability because the enormous reach of these resources usually suggests that something like "vanity press", "self published", "local distribution only", or some such is a more parsimonious explanation than something like "systematic anti-Iranian bias of the western publishing infrastructure". It is simply untrue that WorldCat does not have the necessary presence to use as a tool for evaluating publication status of foreign authors. For example, it is easy to find Iranian authors on WP of debatable notability (judging by their article sources) who nevertheless have Farsi-language, foreign-published books listed in WorldCat: Bijan Najdi's book http://www.worldcat.org/title/dobareh-az-hamaan-khiaban-ha/oclc/838142326&referer=brief_results Dobâreh az hamaan Khiaban-hâ (published in Tehran) or Ali Ashraf Darvishian's book http://www.worldcat.org/title/afsanehha-va-matalhaye-kordi/oclc/59354460&referer=brief_results Afsanehha va matalhaye kordi being 2 examples. Though again I am no expert on Iranian literature, I doubt that these are important classical works and, indeed they're not held by any US library system. The bottom line is that there should be serious doubts about "keep" based on  if there is a complete absence from WorldCat. Thanks
— User:Agricola44, 18:26, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:AUTHOR (Wikipedia:Notability)