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The result was Nomination withdrawn. heading to WP:SNOW.. LibStar (talk) 22:53, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Aleksandr Dulichenko (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

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fails WP:BIO and WP:PROF nothing in gnews. very little in gscholar. LibStar (talk) 06:42, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:51, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep. You are searching for an uncommon spelling of his name. Searching for either "Duličenko" or "Дуличенко" gets greater numbers of hits in Google news, Google scholar, and Google books; the first name can be omitted, as most of the hits seem to be for the right person. And in any case the times and languages in which he was most active are not the ones best indexed by Google. I think the editorship and festschrift, while somewhat obscure, are enough for WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:02, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Listed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Constructed languages/Esperanto task force. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:09, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. In addition to what David Eppstein said, there is a biographical entry about him in "Encyclopedia of Rusyn history and culture"[1]. Nsk92 (talk) 15:00, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per all of the above. Werner Heisenberg (talk) 01:47, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep for all the reasons outlined; but improve it. (Yes, I am an Esperantist.) --Orange Mike | Talk 04:09, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. Once again: for contemporary non-English subjects, absence of Google footprint of evidence is not evidence of absence of notability. Please. Power.corrupts (talk) 23:43, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

google news covers various languages. it is often a good indicator of notability. if this individual has a well sourced Russian article (none exists) I would not have nominated it. if people can find foreign language sources they are welcome to. LibStar (talk) 14:21, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. He passes WP:PROF as a professor with a festschrift, which demonstrates significant peer esteem. Personally I think the existence of a festschrift should be mentioned explicitly in WP:PROF. This on its own makes him worthy of inclusion in my view. Of course non-English speaking and non-scientific academics will have lower Google rankings in general and I do not believe Wikipedia should be Anglo-centric in this regard. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 10:56, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Just a remark: festschrift is in fact already explicitly mentioned in WP:PROF, see item 3 in WP:PROF#Notes and examples. Nsk92 (talk) 11:06, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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