Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mykola Mazepa


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The result was   delete as a machine translation, without prejudice against the creation of a new version in proper English. Skomorokh  01:48, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Mykola Mazepa

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Machine-translated autobiography. Most sources are citing Mykola Mazepa himself, dubious notability. DonaldDuck (talk) 06:36, 3 February 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Cirt (talk) 00:17, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 500 persons of authority. Laureates. 1991 - 2002// Mazepa Mykola Mykolajovich. East Ukrainian biographical Institute, 2002. - P. 81., 500 persons of authority. Ukraine: 10 years of independence.//Mazepa Mikola Mikolajovich. East Ukrainian biographical Institute, 2001. - P. 196. 91.124.216.104 (talk) 23:17, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Images: Mykola Mazepa, Press-portraits: Mykola Mazepa-, articles: Mykola Mazepa, books:Colonel-General URC Nikolai Mazeppa - author of the Cossack era in Ukraine. 91.124.216.104 (talk) 23:55, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. I haven't yet checked for notability (and don't have the inclination to do so today) but would agree with the nominator that this seems to be a machine translation of the Ukranian Wikipedia article, so we wouldn't be losing much by deleting this and waiting for a more comprehensible human translation. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:30, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Dear colleagues! It is machine translation of my article into English language. Request to finish off it in accordance with the English spelling. Thank you. Иван Московит (talk) 08:13, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete for now, we do not need machine translated articles of non-notable subjects.  JBsupreme  ( talk ) 08:33, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Not sure. I don't know, but here are my comments. The main question here is notability, probably best evaluated using WP:PROF or WP:AUTHOR, but possibly on the basis of high police rank and various decorations. The issue of machine translation doesn’t matter. If the person is notable, then style issues can be resolved later. I don’t understand the significance of the International Personnel Academy in the context of a high-ranking police officer who ended up running one or more prisons. I searched on Google Scholar and didn't find him, but don't read Ukrainian. I don’t know how notable the decorations he received are. He had an audience with Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow which suggests some notability (not that the meeting itself conferred notability, but that the Russian Orthodox Church considered that his achievements were significant enough to be recognized by an audience with the Patriarch). The listings in various biographical directories don’t indicate notability, but reading them might lead to a better understanding of his accomplishments, since I find the current version of the article rather confusing. And I added “This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Ukrainian Wikipedia.” at the end of the article. – Eastmain (talk • contribs) 23:24, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
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