Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wydawnictwo MON


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The result was merge to Bellona Publishing House. Spartaz Humbug! 22:45, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Wydawnictwo MON

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Wholly unsourced stub (that has been like this for years) that reads like a hit piece or policy designed to says its not reliable. Slatersteven (talk) 11:44, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. Redirecting to Bellona Publishing House is a quick and easy solution, and I was going to suggest it, but then I decided to spend a few more minutes digging and I found enough to make me think it is notable per WP:NORG. WMON stands for the Publishing House of the Polish Ministry of Defense (active during the communist era) Pl wiki does not have an article on it but pl:Bellona (wydawnictwo) has a split suggestion, but there is nothing to split right now, one sentence about WMON receiving a governmental award. It may have an entry in, but I can't see it in the snippet and it could be just a passing mention. Ditto for (that source is a 1981 'small encyclopedia' of Polish publishing industry).  seems to have a paragraph (?) about its history, again, snippet view prevents me from seeing how in-depth it is. But at this point I was able to establish the year it was founded and its original name, and a google books search for Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej „ Prasa Wojskowa " shows several more sources. Again, all are snippet view, but together, I think it is clear this was a notable publishing house. Further sources: this article has several paragraphs about WMON and also helps to establish the notability of the modern Bellona; a self-published I guess book about itself on its 20th anniversary in 1967, an article about Bellona and its history including WMON in a major Polish newspaper, Bellona and WMON listed in the list of major Polish publishing houses in the Polish PWN encyclopedia , same encyclopedia has an article on Bellona ... the topic may be difficult to destub without access to non-digitized Polish books, but I think it is clearly a notable publishing house (several decades of activity, attached to a ministry, and published hundreds if not thousands of books). PS. I added some refs to the article is no longer unreferenced. May I suggest withdrawing this nom, User:Slatersteven? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  13:22, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Not yet, as (you even seem to say) there should in fact be a merge (in effect). Which can be the result of an AFD. I am not sure there is really anything here to keep.Slatersteven (talk) 13:30, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I am ambivalent about the merge; it makes some sense, as one could argue the company has just changed names (and there is no confusing merge to deal with). But I am a bit sad you would say there is nothing to keep; I've referenced every single sentence, and the sources cited here clearly show the company is significant in the context of the history of the Polish publishing industry. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 07:11, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, about 4 lines, that is what I mean.Slatersteven (talk) 09:26, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
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