Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wind Andrey


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The result was   keep. Since I can read Russian I can confirm that the sources cited relate to Literturnaya Rossia which is a highly respected literary publication in Russia. Sources do not need to be in English but it needs a much better Russian speaker then I am to do the necessary to properly source and improve the article Spartaz Humbug! 22:40, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Wind Andrey

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Contested prod. Russian author of questionable notability. No relevant third-party sources can be found. Delete.  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 13:29, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * What are these? Juzhong (talk) 13:38, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Быть нарушителем
 * Говорит профессор Ващенко looks like a webhost
 * Взгляд изнутри
 * Был приятно удивлён
 * Литературные коридоры
 * Дыхание живых слов
 * "Тропа". Андрей Ветер. FictionBook
 * Сайт книги "Тропа" looks like a webhost
 * Персональный сайт Андрея Ветра looks like a webhost
 * Of the ones that have not been tagged "looks like a webhost" as of this writing, all but one of them look to me like Mr. Veter is the author, not the subject. The remaining one looks very much like a page from a competitor of amazon.ru, which does not qualify as a reliable source attesting to the author's notability, while it does attest to his existence. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 01:32, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep As Juzhong shows, there are sources out there. I can imagine that if the nominator searched for "Wind Andrey", not much would have been found.  On the other hand, a search under "Андрей Ветер" turns up quite a bit more .  I definitely think that the article should be renamed "Andrey Veter", which is the author's name.  Weak keep, however, because I can't tell that Andrey or Andrei Veter is actually notable according to Cyrillic-writing sources. Mandsford (talk) 14:18, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions.   —Juzhong (talk) 14:24, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Notability not established.ChildofMidnight (talk) 01:59, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * What's wrong with you people? You don't speak Russian, YOU DON'T FUCKING KNOW. Juzhong (talk) 12:44, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * And that's exactly why notability is in question, I guess. Since we don't speak Russian, we "don't (f-word) know" whether the books have been reviewed in the Russian news or are in Russian bookstores or whether Detective Press is an established publisher, and can't be sure.  We would apply the same standards to a book from a publisher that we weren't familiar with (to his credit, Andrei Veter seems to have published a lot of books).  Here's the ru.wikipedia.org article  and a translation  and here's a separate translated page .  If anyone can show to me that the publisher is notable, that would be persuasive.  Mandsford (talk) 16:14, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Keep and tag. Having so many books for sale through book chain is in itself an indication of notability. Tag is so an editor with some Russian knows it needs improving. If we don'T accept RS reviews of his books as sources for his notability, then we could make articles for each of the seperate books but not the author? Which is a ridiculous situation. I see no requests at Translation/*/Lang/ru for the sources.Yobmod (talk) 11:10, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete: Looks like promotion. The article says nothing about why this author is more notable than the average, run-of-the-mill author. --Cbdorsett (talk) 07:14, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 09:22, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 09:22, 1 December 2008 (UTC)


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