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The result was keep. JohnCD (talk) 10:18, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kim J. Henriksen[edit]

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No real notability claimed for this person. PROD removed, but the only non-primary source is a passing mention and since both the band and the Esperanto society are redlinks, there's nothing really here for WP:BIO. Black Kite 07:21, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: I can't find significant coverage for this musician. Joe Chill (talk) 07:35, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Kim Henriksen is a pioneering musician in the Esperanto world, part of two of the major bands. There's not a lot of rock-music literature in the Esperanto world, but I'm sure there's something out there. -- Yekrats (talk) 11:59, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: The article needs to cite more sources, but I know from my general knowledge of the Esperanto movement that Kim Henriksen is about as famous and notable within the world of Esperanto rock music as several filkers and filk groups we have articles on are within the world of filk. I'll ask around among people more knowledgeable about Esperanto music than I am and see what I can come up with in the way of more sources to cite. --Jim Henry (talk) 02:03, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Kim and his bands are known to most, if not all, of the 2 million Esperantists on the planet. It's easier to find an Esperantist who has never heard of Lydia Zamenhof than Esperanto Desperado, and so I don't think deletion is appropriate in this case. Kavaliro (talk) 04:18, 7 December 2009 (UTC) — Kavaliro (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
Keep: I have now more than doubled the size of the article in an attempt to demonstrate notability, as kindly requested by Black Kite and Dædalus, by citing the book by Arika Okrent, an independent linguist interested in constructed/planned languages. A discussion of Henrikson marks both her point of departure and the conclusion of her chapter on Esperanto. It appears that his musical contributions are highly significant to the international Esperanto culture at least. Objectivesea (talk) 12:26, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Kim Henriksen and his bands are well-known and important to Esperantists of many nationalities. Ailanto (talk) 16:23, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.