Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Naing Win Swe


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The result was   keep. Davewild (talk) 19:13, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Naing Win Swe

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No evidence of notability in reliable sources. Sources in article are all from blogs, and all appear to simply reproduce the subject's work (although I can't say for certain with the Burmese one; would appreciate an in-a-nutshell translation from someone bilingual). The usual WP:BEFORE check hasn't turned up anything better, and certainly doesn't suggest notability. Yunshui (talk) 23:45, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment; while I agree with your assessment, I think we're also running into a language problem, since there aren't exactly a lot of translations between Burmese and English. I'm inclined to vote delete at the moment, but I'll try to run a search in some of the libraries around me (I'm around a bunch of universities, so they'll have information if anyone does). The Blade of the Northern Lights  ( 話して下さい ) 04:45, 21 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment: Unfortunately Google doesn't  support Burmese and AFAIK, all  other free online machine translation use Google's system. Also, I'm  600 Km away  from  the Burmese border so  there's nithing  much  I  can from  here in  Thailand. I don't think  there's too  much  of a hurry -  we can always relist. The creator has made some decent  contribs to  Burmese articles, but  if this  turns out to  be non  notable it  will just  have to  go. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:06, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Not like the government there would want people coming in to do research on someone involved in the 8888 Uprising anyways... The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 07:08, 21 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment - There are certainly hints of notability in unreliable sources. For example, this Yahoo Groups posting notes his poem being read at Burma Night at the University of Alberta.  This forum post indicates that the poem was read as part of a poetry program on Radio Free Asia's Burmese service.  The closest thing to a reliable source that I could dig out was this paper on Post-Colonial Society and Culture: Reflections in Myanmar Novels of the Last 50 years (see page 15) which might be a PhD thesis.  The authors are identified as U Than Htut (Member, Myanmar Historical Commission. Retired Director-General, Culture Institute and former Director of the Myanmar National Library), and U Thaw Kaung (Member, Myanmar Historical Commission. Retired Chief Librarian, Universities Central Library). -- Whpq (talk) 13:38, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I had found those too but I decided that  they  were nither RS nor significant  coverage. However, as the piece is not toxic, and as we have so little on Burma, I would be prepared to IAR on this and let the article stand. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:42, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Asia-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:01, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:01, 21 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep I'm willing to trust Kudpung's instincts on this. There are enough sources for WP:V, and for the reasons he gives, this is sufficient.  DGG ( talk ) 04:04, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep as per my  comments above and DGG's !vote. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:11, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. I checked the creator's contribution as far back as 2005. I say Kudpung's Ignore All Rules recommendation is the most reasonable course of action for this article. PolicarpioM (talk) 10:15, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - There doesn't seem to be enough sources that show this person is notable. Inter rest (talk) 20:32, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep pretty much per Kudpung and DGG; what's available will do at least until Burma opens up, and it's through no fault of the subject that he isn't well known outside of Burma (I know plenty about the situation there, having written a few articles related to the subject, and it's extraordinarily difficult to get any kind of sourcing on it). The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 23:02, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
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