Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Armands Strazds (2nd nomination)


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The result was   keep. or nomination withdrawn, take your pick (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:02, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Armands Strazds
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This subject is not notable. A search for independent resources has yielded nothing and it is not even clear whether or not the composers works have ever been performed professionally. Furthermore, this article was deleted in an AFD two years ago and then recreated by the same SPA account that created it the first time with no one noticing.Nrswanson (talk) 10:24, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Comment He may be more prominent in Latvia, but access to their press is difficult. This is what I could find:
 * List of publications on official web site + Google Scholar results
 * Nomination for what appears to be a theatre award (Spēlmaņu Nakts) in Latvian.
 * Interview in the Latvian music journal, Mūzikas Saule.
 * Something on Latvijas Radio 1 (The national public radio station. Haven't got a clue what it says)
 * About a performance of his oratorio Gitanjali (in German)
 * Something about music he composed for the film Dark Wave – Im Flug der Libellen in the Newsletter of Deutsch-Polnische Gesellschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German)

I'll post a notice on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Latvia and see if they can shed any light.Voceditenore (talk) 12:55, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Never heard of him, but I'm not interested in Latvian music and theatre. But as for your link collection - Spēlmaņu Nakts is a seasonal award ceremony of national importance. That's schedule of Latvijas Radio broadcast for November 27, 2005 - it apears to be a radio drama for which he has composed music. IMHO it amounts at least some notability  Xil  (talk) 15:48, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Further comment: I'm inclined to say keep in light of Xil's comments. Plus, his "Zime" project (also spelled "Zīme" in Latvian and sometimes "Zimej") was the Latvia Pavillion's central exhibit at Expo 2000. See his write-up in German on the Expo 2000 official site (scroll down to STRAZDS, ARMANDS and click on the link). The Zime project site has photos of the President of Latvia at the time, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, generating a Zime in the Pavillion. Voceditenore (talk) 16:44, 18 September 2008 (UTC) Update I'm even more inclined to keep after finding this article devoted to Strazds in Latvijas Avīze, one of the main newspapers in Latvia. Voceditenore (talk) 17:11, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:02, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per all sources above Xil  (talk) 08:12, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep thanks to the efforts of voceditenore in finding sources in foreign press, etc. As I am the one who nominated this in the first place I think an admin could reasonably close this with a keep now.Nrswanson (talk) 05:45, 20 September 2008 (UTC)


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