The result was no consensus to delete , default to keep. The sources provided by Graeme Bartlett are mostly good, but the Times Daily one is a WP mirror. The other three should be added to the article. lifebaka++ 13:59, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Non-notable suicide. Fails WP:N. Only numbered reference is a letter to the editor, which is less less reliable a source than a blog (and blogs are not accepted as reliable sources often in Wikipedia). Alternative is to merge with the Shell Oil Company article (which is already mentions the man). Furthermore, this man is known only for his death, not his biography. However, even a "Hunger Strike of Mehdi Shahbazi" article is not very encyclopeic.
Wikipedia is also not a memorial. This man was not known for anything other than the hunger strike. People looking for the hunger strike information may look to the Shell article but they are not going to remember the man's name and type it in. Presumptive (talk) 04:01, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have a few links here to some the things I was talking about:
The San Jose Mercury News had quite a few articles on Mehdi Shahbazi, but to access them now you need to have a pay subscription on their website. I will post some more links later.
I think merging is a bad idea, because Mehdi was never trying to target shell specifically about gas prices, but all oil companies in general. [1]
--Kwhubby (talk) 06:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]