User talk:Yakovkronrod

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I moved your autobiographical article to your empty userpage. With some experience of Wikipedia, I can almost guarantee you that it would not survive in the main article space, especially since it is written by yourself. You may well deserve a bio here some day, but it is better to let others decide when.

As I have explained on the page Articles for deletion/Vladimir Kronrod, it is usually frowned upon to write articles about yourself or people or things very close to you - which is not to say that it never happens. However, if your grandfather is Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod, I am sure an article on him would be fine, as long as you reference sources available to others for verification purposes (such as obituaries in math journals, for instance, preferrably in English, but Russian sources are also fine if they add additional information or a different perspective).

Forget your personal knowledge and connection for a while, and look at the task as if you were writing a biographical entry about any stranger who may deserve an article. Try to avoid too much on family, hobbies or other private matters (especially things which aren't mentioned in any previously published obituary or biography) and focus on his work. If you want to emphasize his importance, do so only by quoting the evaluation by other authorities. Read up on the "neutral point of view" policy, on how to cite sources on Wikipedia and Wikipedia's policy on verifiability.

Here is an article on ASK:. I suppose it may be identical to E M Landis, I M Yaglom, "About Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod", Russian mathematical surveys, 2001, 56 (5), 993-1007, but I can't access that at the moment.

On Google Books I also find mention of a Soviet economist, Iakov Abramovich Kronrod (1912-1984), who I suppose may be some kind of relative of yours (see Oscar J Bandelin, Return to the Nep: The False Promise of Leninism and the Failure of Perestroika).

Good luck! Don't get too disappointed if your father's article gets deleted. If you wish you can move it to your userspace. u p p l a n d 10:04, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Alexander Kronrod
I made a stub for your grandfather, Alexander Kronrod. Feel free to add info that you think might be relevant. A nice picture would especially be helpful. Mhym 19:51, 21 April 2006 (UTC)