Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soltan Hajibeyov


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The result was   keep. Cirt (talk) 02:34, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Soltan Hajibeyov

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Notability. This composer has made no impact in the classical music world. His works haven't been performed by major ensembles or published by a major publishing company. No results on google or yahoo. Karljoos (talk) 12:53, 27 December 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:04, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Azerbaijan-related deletion discussions.  cab (talk) 14:19, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Seems to meet the general notability guideline (try searching in Russian), if not any music-specific ones. People's Artist of Azerbaijan SSR title is confirmed by his (rather brief) entries in the Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, and the Theatre Encyclopedia . cab (talk) 14:19, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: He might meet some criteria, but I think that not every professional musician deserves an article. There are millions of musicians with CVs like this gentleman's, but they do not deserve an article. I don't see any relevance in his career as a composer, apart of some appointements at, and this said with all respect, a provincial conservatoire. There can't be an article about every single professional musician!!--Karljoos (talk) 16:01, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

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 * Keep People's Artist of the USSR is a very significant honor, basically the highest artistic honorary title that was available in USSR. Also, the Russian Wikipedia article mentions that he received the Stalin Prize of second degree in 1952. Passes WP:BIO on those grounds. Nsk92 (talk) 03:24, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, he was the subject of a published biographical book about him; the title of the book translates from Russian as "Sultan Gadzhibekov : life and creative work". That definitely makes him pass WP:BIO. I think that perhaps the title of the WP article needs to be moved to a better transliteration of his name, since Hajibeyov is really far off the mark. The transliteration should be something like Hadzhibekov or Gadzhibekov. Nsk92 (talk) 03:37, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Here is another published biography of him. Nsk92 (talk) 03:50, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * And another one. Nsk92 (talk) 03:54, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * There is also an entry about him in the Big Soviet Encyclopedia. Nsk92 (talk) 05:20, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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 * Keep. In addition to all of the above it looks like he passes WP:PROF #6 as rector of an important music school. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:05, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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