Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sven Lindahl


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The result was speedy keep. Withdraw requested by. (non-admin closure) ミラP 03:04, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Sven Lindahl

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As written, fails WP:NBIO and I don't see any sources in English that would help. Swedish wiki bio is longer but similarly not referenced at all. Can anyone find Swedish sources to improve this? (This was prodded ~5 years ago but nobody improved this since). Time to find sources or delete it, I think Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:13, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  05:13, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sweden-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  05:13, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Keep - Passes GNG, well known Swedish journalist, hosted Melodifestivalen - career summed up perfect, I think you are starting to belittle articles. Mrluke485 (talk) 08:56, 19 November 2019 (GMT)
 * "well known Swedish journalist" - source please. "hosted Melodifestivalen" - so what? "career summed up perfect" - ditto. And please avoid WP:NPA.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:59, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Then explain to me why you think hosting Melodifestivalen is irrelevant when its one of the most successful TV show in Sweden, I will refrain from personal attacks but since you are proposing my articles for deletion I intend to stand by them 100%, you may not like it but just I respect your right to consider them for deletion, I reserve the right to defend these articles. Also here is a member of a personal body. Mrluke485 (talk) 09:20, 19 November 2019 (GMT)
 * I am not denying you your right to defend them. I just wish that those articles would meet our policies more. Such as WP:V for proper referencing, or WP:NBIO for making it more clear why some of the activities described there go beyond 'just having a normal career' and make someone encyclopedic. Which, again, can be fixed if you were to add more sources to them, ones that would show that independent sources have written about those people. That you think they are important is about as irrelevant as whether I think they are or aren't. We need WP:RS coverage which shows or preferably states outright they are important. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:32, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Strong keep. Not really an edge case, though the article was definitely lacking sources when taken to AfD. Even though his most active years in the public eye were in the 60s and 70s and there would be a huge amount of information about him that isn't easily accessible from home, finding a couple of reliable sources was fairly easy. "Our first major news anchor in television" and "one of the biggest television stars of his time", says Minnenas journal (a Swedish magazine). Hemmets Journal has a long article from 2006, no longer online but available through Mediaarkivet, where they call him Sweden's "very first television idol". I've expanded the article somewhat and added better sources than it had. More would be found in printed material, but this alone should be enough to show notability and verifiability, I think. /Julle (talk) 23:07, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * (The less accessible Hemmets Journal article is 2600 words long, focused on Lindahl's life and career. /Julle (talk) 23:11, 20 November 2019 (UTC))
 * (Also: easy for someone speaking Swedish, of course. Not meant as criticism. /Julle (talk) 23:38, 20 November 2019 (UTC))


 * Withdraw. Thank you User:Julle for finding those sources, my concerns are now addressed. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 04:05, 21 November 2019 (UTC)


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