Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spartak Makovsky


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The result was   speedy keep. Keep !vote by nominator indicates withdrawn nomination, no non-Keep !votes. The Bushranger One ping only 21:23, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Spartak Makovsky

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It is not clear to me that the subject meets the notability requirements here. If a source could be found to confirm that he was indeed a Hero of the Soviet Union, then I believe the page should be kept. I have tried and failed to find such a source; I don't read Russian. I've had no luck persuading the creator of the article that it needs reliable sources. The article was at its creation a near-complete copyvio from Celebrities, a source I have removed as obviously unreliable. I'd appreciate the advice of others on both the notability and the copyright aspects. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:55, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Have you read my quote from that source yet? If not, please do. Its on the articles talk page.--Mishae (talk) 22:35, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
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 * Keep. I've added two reliable sources for the Hero of the Soviet Union. In addition, this indicates other coverage available in libraries. This indicates that a significant portion of a Russian documentary film was devoted to him. Likewise this one. I have removed the copyvio which was left in the article as hidden text. This is not allowed either. However, the previous version of the article which was copy-pasted is available in this version. Voceditenore (talk) 06:44, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
 * More sources: Lengthy article, "Сражался, как Спартак" (Fought like Spartacus), in Казахстанская правда (Kazakhstanskaya Pravda), a major newspaper in Kazakhstan. Voceditenore (talk) 07:06, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep (as nominator), following the clean-up by Voceditenore, for which many thanks. OK, I don't see any reference to "Hero of the Soviet Union" in the Google Books search linked above (which I had also tried before listing here, of course); don't get any snippet that mentions him from Sons Take Over; and can't read, or indeed even persuade Google to translate, the Kazakh news page. But I assume that someone can, which is all that matters. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:44, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Here's the link to the relevant text of the snippet. As for the article from the Kazakh National Information Agency, try this link to the Google translation. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 08:54, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
 * All good, thanks again. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:04, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
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