Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nikolai Lukashenko


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The result was keep. Withdrawn by nominator. (non-admin closure)  M h hossein   talk 07:02, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Nikolai Lukashenko

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Notability is WP:NOTINHERITED. The article is lightly sourced to very questionably WP:RS material that speculates on popular rumors. WP:OR is used to declare he has received "significant media attention" when, in fact, the sources used to support that statement say no such thing. A WP:BEFORE on Google News, Google Books, JSTOR, and newspapers.com finds a single WP:RS (versus a great many non-RS sources like tabloids, blogs, and social media) about Nikolai Lukashenko (versus passing mentions in articles about his father) in The Telegraph. Chetsford (talk) 15:14, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. He is more popularly referred to as Kolya Lukashenko, so a BEFORE search needs to cover that as well. Of course, the nominator rightly pointed out that being the son of the President of Belarus doesn't mean he is automatically notable. However, there are literally entire articles written about him and his involvement in politics in numerous reliable sources: BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, USA Today to name a few. Some of the sources are also present in the article's history. All in all, what we have here clearly meets WP:GNG and WP:BASIC, and is way, way more than a mere claim to notability by virtue of his connection to his father. -- Dps04 (talk) 18:27, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Withdraw as Nom per sources provided by Dps04. Chetsford (talk) 23:08, 24 September 2020 (UTC)


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