Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Panayotis Koupitoris


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The result was   keep. Jayjg (talk) 04:02, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Panayotis Koupitoris

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This article is about a 19th century Greek schoolteacher who wrote a few dissertations and wrote a couple of books but never published them. Not notable. Ptolion (talk) 20:25, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep A basic search (Google and Google books) indicates that this guy has made a fairly substantial contribution to Albanian studies. And that's just in English. It may very well be that there are far more sources on this guy in Greek, as the citations to the article suggest. Also, the article does not say that none of his works were published, only those works mentioned in the article's final sentence. If someone more knowledgable of Albanian studies than I were to refute his notability, I'd change my mind; but otherwise, to my layman's eyes, he appears notable. --Mkativerata (talk) 20:47, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep The article cites print sources which point to notability. I also did a google book search and found that he is mentioned in The Albanian national awakening, 1878-1912 By Stavro Skendi and also in the Dictionary of Albanian literature By Robert Elsie.  Again, to find such English-language print sources so easily, on a subject like this, given the time period and his backgrounds and the languages involved, points very solidly to notability.  This seems a classic example of a topic that's hard to find information about online, but for which print sources abound.  Cazort (talk) 21:00, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  —David Eppstein (talk) 06:36, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
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