Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vladimir Yankilevsky


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) – Davey 2010 •  (talk)  23:56, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Vladimir Yankilevsky

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Unresolved notability for over six years. Fails WP:GNG because the only sources found are self-published. Mr. Guye (talk) 21:39, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. He is mentioned as a notable artist in many books, as shown by a simple GBooks search.  Substantive coverage includes:  (an article by the notable composer and critic Alfred Schnittke);  (Financial Times, reporting on a 2007 retrospective collecting his works from museums and collections around the world);  (The Daily Telegraph, in 2009, referring to him as "one of Russia's most distinguished living artists . . . famously denounced as "degenerate" by Nikita Khrushchev in 1962 and was subsequently selected by Sotheby's for its groundbreaking sale of Russian contemporary art in Moscow in 1988. He was one of the chosen exhibitors for the Guggenheim's RUSSIA! exhibition in New York in 2005 and has lived in Paris for the last 17 years.")  Additional examples:    --Arxiloxos (talk) 00:29, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:11, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:11, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 21:10, 9 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep as per above. It is simply not true that "the only sources found are self-published."  SImple GoogleBooks search turns up a book published by University of Chicago press with 13 mentions of the artist.  "The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes By Matthew Jesse Jackson."  &mdash; Gaff  ταλκ 21:19, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * See also: foreign language WP entry.  &mdash; Gaff  ταλκ 21:23, 9 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep clearly meets then notability requirement for artist: the key requirement is having works in major collections, which the references demonstrate. We normally think twice before nominating for deletion articles here where there is an unchallenged extensive corresponding article in the appropriate national language Wikipedia-- some WPs are more reliable than others in this regard. I am only moderately familiar with the ruWP, but I have seen articles there for people whom we would not consider notable--so keeping an article here for this reason is not an invariable rule. But the ruWP clearly provides extensive additional information, including a list of works in museums, and additional references--tho some of them are not what we would consider reliable sources.  DGG' ( talk ) 21:55, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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