Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Siarhey Balakhonau


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  19:10, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Siarhey Balakhonau

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It's very doubtful whether this person meets our notability requirements. The article is essentially unreferenced; it is sourced only to his personal website and a now-defunct blog. And I can find nothing substantial about him, his two books, or any of the magazines he's supposedly published in. In fact, sourcing is so scant that I almost thought I was dealing with an elaborate hoax article until I thought to search under the alternate spelling of Sergey Balakhonov. All I could find kind of verifies that he exists, but doesn't help the notability situation. Reyk YO! 12:38, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete I concur with Reyk's findings. We can show this person exists perhaps, and that they've published a couple of books. But, just getting published does not make someone notable. There's nothing in this article to suggest anything that would pass WP:NAUTHOR. Further, there is no a single source in the article nor anywhere that I can find on the web that supports any notion of notability, except (again) that he exists. I am sensitive to the reality that non-English speaking/writing creative professionals are harder to find sources for, but there's just nothing to go on here. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:51, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


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