Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ion Gr. Oprişan


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The result was   delete. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 00:33, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Ion Gr. Oprişan

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This entry doesn't satisfy WP:AUTHOR. The claim to notability is that he published a monograph and several books, for which no reviews are cited. Oprişan appears to be widely unknown in his Romanian context: true, his monograph is once mentioned by name on page 1006 of George Călinescu's History of Romanian Literature (1986 reprint), among virtually all the works published on Alexandru Vlahuţă before 1958 - I counted 17 others just for Vlahuţă's entry, all in fine print on the same page. In this massive opus, Oprişan's literary work is not once discussed in the body of text. Judging from internet content and archives, including those of interwar magazines, Oprişan is virtually non-existent, either as "Ion Gr. Oprişan", "Ion Grigore Oprişan" (presuming that's what "Gr." stands for) or "Ion G. Oprişan". Same results for the variation "Ioan" instead of "Ion". He does get hits from wikipedia forks or discussion pages, and a couple of passing mentions in some unreliable internet publications by an Orthodox splinter group - see here or here (the very same text, from a 1943 original). The latter results reflect not his writing career or his lawyer's credentials, but something not mentioned in the article: he apparently was a grassroots member of the highly controversial new religious movement Oastea Domnului. Also note that the one source cited in the article is a relative's speech at a genealogical symposium. Dahn (talk) 14:30, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete - mainly per Dahn's thorough analysis, but also due to a search of my own, which does indeed show that the few mentions of him are either definitely in passing, on self-published sites, or on mirrors of this page. No independent reliable sources appear forthcoming. - Biruitorul Talk 13:54, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
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