Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Kabakov


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  16:38, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Alexander Kabakov

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Tenuous notability. Fails WP:BIO  scope_creep Talk  13:05, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 14:55, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 14:55, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

There is no reasons to delete article. Alexander Kabakov matches basic peoples notability criteria. A number of indepedent sources listed in article text, and it's not a big problem to add more. This person also have a big notability in IT industry as one of two founders of a Russian software company,  prizing by IARPA at 2017, and publishing ambiguous and controversial face recognition technology implementation FindFace. In this role he got a big number of international press mentions - not only russian and american, but also french, chineze and other. Zircumflex2017 (talk) 20:32, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete a non-notable businessman, no actual claim to notability. Wikipedia is not linkedin.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:26, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment If kept, he should not be confused with the far more notable Aleksandr (Abramovič) Kabakov 188.216.192.146 (talk) 07:03, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: I can find effectively nothing notable about this person per WP:BASIC; although he appears in several articles about his software, he is definitively not the subject. The article's creator and effectively sole maintainer contests that Kabakov "got a big number of international press mentions", yet links to one small article by a Russian propaganda outlet that's not even directly about Kabakov. I think FindFace, the subject that's actually covered by the citations in Kabakov's article, seems to meet WP:GNG and WP:NSOFT (although its citations are currently in disrepair), but the subject himself categorically fails to meet notability guidelines.  TheTechnician27  (Talk page)  20:04, 5 June 2019 (UTC)


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