Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Valery Marakou (2nd nomination)


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The result was   no consensus. Ron Ritzman (talk) 03:42, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Valery Marakou
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I can't find sufficient indicia of notability of this poet and translator. Tagged for notability for over three years. Epeefleche (talk) 07:34, 15 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment - this is going to be hard for non-readers of White Russian (is that 'Belarussian' with two 's'es?), and I suspect most material will be on paper, and Samizdat at that. However, I have added a book on Marakou to the Bibliography, so there is a decent printed source, as well as a list of 7 of Marakou's own works - 6 books of poetry, and one of collected writings. Other sources: BelarusDigest (bit bloggy). There is no doubt of Marakou's existence, nor of his poetry; I guess the website and book together establish that he was persecuted and reprieved. We need a Belarus(s)ian reader really. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:38, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
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 * Comment. This source provides further confirmation of the subject's execution, and these Google Scholar hits appear, from the snippets provided, to include some substantive coverage (I can read Russian, but don't have access to the full text of those sources). Phil Bridger (talk) 18:47, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - I think we have enough evidence of notability now; the books can be studied by our Russian speakers in "slower time", but it seems clear we have a worthy poet well noted in Belarus. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:27, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:43, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BusterD (talk) 13:48, 29 December 2011 (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.