Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nikola Kesarovski


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The result was   keep. JForget 00:40, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Nikola Kesarovski

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Not very notable (gSearch comes up with less than 600 results in quotes); only written one book (6000 hits).  fetch  comms  ☛ 18:44, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Changed to Keep: I can't find significant coverage for this author. Per Phil Bridger. Joe Chill (talk) 02:23, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:17, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - It's possibly unfair to expect a lot of sourcing about him in the English-speaking press. Here is one article that makes him sound notable: Science Fiction Fandom in Bulgaria. His "Fifth Law of Robotics is explained at the Three Laws of Robotics page, and includes a reference, but the reference is not in English. Suggest that we bend over backward to grant notability to writers whose work is not in English. --MelanieN (talk) 01:21, 1 December 2009 (UTC)MelanieN
 * Comment. The Three Laws of Robotics article uses Kesarovski's book as a primary source for the fifth law - that's fine for verifiability purposes but it doesn't help with notability. Phil Bridger (talk) 16:12, 1 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment. In case it helps anyone looking for sources this is the subject's name in Cyrillic: . The subject doesn't appear to have an article in the Bulgarian Wikipedia but he is redlinked from its article on the fourth and fifth laws of robotics. Phil Bridger (talk) 15:49, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. It appears that the subject committed suicide in 2007, spookily just a week or two after our article was created. Kulturni Novini, which appears to be a reliable source, published "in memoriam" articles six months and a year after his death and according to this a national science fiction award has been named after him. It's taking me rather a long time to wade through the search results because Bulgarian isn't one of my stronger languages, but I think that this is enough to show notability. I have other things to do for the moment but I'll update the article later today. Phil Bridger (talk) 16:41, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - I don't speak Bulgarian or anything, But if Phil Bridger says they assert notability, I'll take his word for it, Lord Spongefrog,  (Talk to me, or I'll eat your liver!)  19:55, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
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