Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Čestmír Vejdělek


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. (non-admin closure) &mdash; Music1201  talk  02:31, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Čestmír Vejdělek

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Non-notable Czech writer tagged since May 2008. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 02:49, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm not sure, or don't remember, what the notability standards are for foreign language authors. I created this as he seemed notable Czech science fiction and fantasy and was mentioned in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.--T. Anthony (talk) 06:18, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Our notability standards for foreign authors are the same as our notability standards for non-foreign authors. Bearcat (talk) 17:15, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. /wiae  /tlk  15:34, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Czech Republic-related deletion discussions. /wiae  /tlk  15:34, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep, Vejdělek has an entry in the Dictionary of Czech Literature, published by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, see . The source also contains list of reviews, studies and interviews with the author and could be a good starting point for more thorough research in Czech. There's also an obituary published by Mladá fronta DNES, already mentioned in our article and the mention in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 04:09, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * A valid claim of notability per WP:AUTHOR is definitely possible here — I can't read Czech, so I'm not equipped to determine what the Czech sources say or don't say about him, and without access to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction I can't evaluate whether his "mention" in it is substantive, or merely a glancing namecheck. But in its existing form, the article isn't stating anything except that he's a writer who existed — and while we do allow some leeway for an inadequate article if better sources demonstrably exist to improve it with, an article that's barely seen so much as a comma of improvement in eight years isn't entitled to a permanent exemption from ever having to get better than this. Keep if somebody with Czech language skills can beef it up by close — but if that doesn't happen, then it should be draftified rather than being left in mainspace for another eight years. Bearcat (talk) 17:15, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 06:14, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. Coverage showing up from a Google search is convincing regarding notability. --Michig (talk) 06:29, 7 May 2016 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.