Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kalmyk Americans


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Winged Blades Godric 03:32, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Kalmyk Americans

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Non-notable ethnic group. No reliable or significant coverage. Alexander Iskandar (talk) 07:36, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   10:44, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:20, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep I remember in my days at BYU coming across a book in the BYU library on the Kalmyk Americans. Sources only have to exist, and people have written books on this topic. The article at present is highly questionable, such as the claim the Kalmyks assimilated in Russia, since they are the only historically Buddhist population in Europe, so clearly in some ways they did not assimilate, but having a poor article is not reason to delete, but reason to improve.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:02, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 09:51, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. Coverage in Encyclopedia of New Jersey, Kelvin C. Stuart's book Mongols in Western/American Consciousness, article "The American Kalmyks" in The Mongolia Society Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter 1962), pp. 6-8, this from the Penn Museum, "Kalmyks in the United States" article in Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, Volume 41, 2002 - Issue 2, all found from a two minute Google Books search. --Michig (talk) 10:25, 25 April 2017 (UTC)


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