Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vladimir Riazanov


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The result was Userfying per author's request to continue working. The article can now be found by clicking here. Keeper  |   76   |   Disclaimer  18:49, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Vladimir Riazanov

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This was nominated for speedy deletion per CSD A7. I saw it and fixed the attempt at an underconstruction tag since I thought it was a borderline speedy candidate. The original speedy-tagger came back and removed the tag and replaced it with notability. That being said, no Google results come up for his full name (nor does anything relevant sounding come up for the first and last names). The references also don't seem to be valid. I smell a hoax. Can someone with greater knowledge of Russian history comment? IronGargoyle (talk) 14:59, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I had about this person at университетский Санкт-Петербург ( University of Saint-Petersburg ) during my first year. This person is controversial in Russia. There is no doubt that this person has lived, but whether the background is correct, is unsure. Some link this person to Lenin and Stalin, but personaly I think that is to unsure to be stated. I have send a mail/message to this user: "Myhren" and recived an answer. He would like to extend the article, but was a new user on Wikipedia, as far as he told. He says that he would finish the article later this week, with more references. Maybe we should give the new user some time, but keep looking with it.

Very litle about this person has posted on the web, cause he is not that famous. Maybe in some Russian sircle. I could see if I can dig up my old notes from the university, but would not be able to lay something the next days. Maybe Thursday. Sergey Yevgenyevich (talk) 18:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Please see the discussion-page at Vladimir Riazanov.. Myhren (talk) 19:04, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Weak keep. I am the original speedy-tagger of this article. I tagged it so mainly because of the wording, especially that of the last sentence, He was executed in 1915 when the government discovered him, which to me smelled like a hoax. I removed my own tag on follow up because of subsequent edits that established a borderline notability assertion for this person, which made the article still deleteable if reliable sources cannot be found, but not speedable. Additionally, the use of the word discovered is more likely due to the author's lack of fluency in English. This said, I realize that, for a Russian man, one would expect reliable sources to be mostly in Russian. Unfamiliar as I am with the Cyrillic alphabet (I can read some, but not all the characters), transliteration by me of the subject's name into Cyrillic could be tricky and/or inaccurate, and me being unable to find sources on the Web about the subject could lead to a false negative. Sergey Yevgenyevich is probably the best hope of survival for this article right now. --Blanchardb- Me • MyEars • MyMouth -timed 21:26, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as there is no assertion of why he is notable. Bearian (talk) 16:42, 5 February 2008 (UTC)


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