Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roman Putin


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete: Although I have not done so as part of the deletion process, I am happy to recover the content into user or draft space on request, to allow it to be re-used in other appropriate places.  Harrias  talk 13:52, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Roman Putin

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Individual does not seem particularly notable. Main source is more of a resume than anything. Does not seem to have extensive coverage in independent sources. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:59, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. This nomination arose out of a discussion at Template:Did you know nominations/Roman Putin.  Spinning Spark  09:50, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. &#9733;&#9734;  DUCK IS JAMMMY &#9734;&#9733; 11:20, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. &#9733;&#9734;  DUCK IS JAMMMY &#9734;&#9733; 11:20, 6 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep: article has sources from several major Russian business papers. Mat  ty  .  007  17:05, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 05:22, 13 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment Anyone know their way round Russian newspapers? User:Matty.007 asserts they are notable, and for now I'll go with that - but would like confirmation? Neonchameleon (talk) 21:43, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I can't read the sources but I had a look at where they came from and they seemed to be from good quality Russian news papers. Thanks, Mat  ty  .  007  22:23, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Not much content there; stylistically, article is just a resume. APerson (talk!) 20:11, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge to some other article -- but I don't know what that article would be. This is a conundrum, as I see it. Roman Putin has received some coverage in published sources (instances in English that I found include and numerous different published versions of ), possibly marginally passing the WP:GNG. He doesn't appear to pass WP:BIO, though -- he doesn't have the kind of record of accomplishments that are required there. Whatever renown he has appears to be due to his being related to Vladimir Putin, and notability is not inherited. Considering those factors, this would be a delete.  However, published sources have paid attention to him and they have done so because of that relationship to V.P. -- somewhat like the way that media pay attention to members of royal families. He's not royalty, but his family connection might cause him to leap into high public visibility (and notability) in the future. Accordingly, I don't think he is sufficiently notable for a stand-alone biography, but it would be good to keep some content about him. A logical place for that would either be an article about one of his enterprises or the article about his cousin, Vladimir Putin. --Orlady (talk) 16:23, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:RSUE.-- Laun  chba  ller  22:17, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment: The Russian-language coverage is no more substantial than the English-language coverage. This page, the biography on his company's website (which does not qualify as independent coverage), and a couple of news items where his name is mentioned in passing are the only Russian-language items I've seen that are not also in English. As with the English-language coverage, when Russian sources cover him in depth, the focus of interest is on his relationship to Vladimir Putin. --Orlady (talk) 23:04, 21 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete - While there is coverage, none of it is significant coverage per WP:GNG, which is why the article reads like a resume. The two features which draw news coverage to the topic, Vladimir Putin's cousin and chairman of MRT Group, do not seem to prompt the newspaper writers to go more in depth about Roman Putin's life. We do not have an MRT Group article and the Roman Putin information probably would not make its way into the Vladimir Putin article. I'm fine with userfying the article to User:Яна Задорожная/Roman Putin so that User:Яна Задорожная can decide where the source information might fit within Wikipedia. -- Jreferee (talk) 13:35, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete, if the Russian language sources are as thin as the English languages ones as asserted below, then this individual does not meet WP:BIO. Lankiveil (speak to me) 09:59, 26 December 2013 (UTC).
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.