The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was no consensus. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 11:40, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anatoly Kudryavitsky (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Unsourced article. I get 358 Google hits for the name. The most salient claims to notability seem to be the awards but I am unable to confirm them from reliable third party sources (3 Google hits for "Robert Graves poetry award", 1 Google hit for "Edgeworth Prize for poetry"). No hits at Amazon.com for "Kudryavitsky", Amazon.co.uk has an entry for A Night in the Nabokov Hotel with a publication date this month and a sales rank of 1,036,009. Haukur 08:28, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Valrith 20:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Very weak delete. On ozon.ru (main Russian online bookseller) there are 24 books related to him http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/258458/?type=305#305 In most of the books he is a translator (he translated a lot from W. Somerset Maugham, G. K. Chesterton, etc). There also a few of his original short stories in anthologies but no solo books he authored. I think it is bellow the level of WP:BIO Alex Bakharev 23:32, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  Interesting. Thank you. Haukur 08:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep:My dear Mr Bakharev, the author has published every book mentioned in the biog. To state the opposite is sheer ignorance, or even worse. There's no place here for uneducated guesses, like yours. I've checked and double checked all the sourses and added a couple. All in all, the author published seven collections of his Russian poems with reputable Russian publishers; three of them with the Third Wave Books, the publisher of Joseph Brodsky. His English collection was brought out by the Kildare-based Goldsmith Press, who published Patrick Kavanagh, among the others. I am beginning to think that you're no expert in Russian literature, Mr Bakharev. Not yet. Generally, I am terrified by the prospect of authors being judged by people who know little about literature and seldom read books. Counting Google hits seems more important to some folks. If only they could count a wee bit better...User:Dreamcatcher9 03:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletions. --   ⇒ bsnowball  09:22, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak delete. Not notable enough. In addition, this seems to be a case where the person in question has written his own WP:Bio. sample and another sample. --Camptown 17:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: The article under consideration was written by one of the author's Irish publishers. The article you mention [1] was written by Philip Casey, the well-known Irish playwright and poet, who is also the webmaster of www.irishwriters-online.com.User:Dreamcatcher9 03:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak delete - He doesn't seem very notable. Peace, ♣Tohru Honda13♣ 03:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • • I guess you can cast a !vote only once Alex Bakharev 07:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Changed to Very weak keep - there are published books, some are with reputable publishers. See no harm in keeping the article Alex Bakharev 07:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Author seems to be notable.Biophys 03:03, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Not notable.Vlad fedorov 08:37, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Has an entry in Russian wiki - [2]. Catchpole 11:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete not notable--Sefringle 04:36, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Author is notable in two countries, Russia and Ireland. Can we say that about many writers represented here?--WickedPetya 04:36, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: user's fifth edit, the first outside his own userpage Alex Bakharev 00:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment: I thought the rule was not to attack newbies Alex. Yes, I am only starting here but have a look at my edits in a few months' time!WickedPetya 00:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Don't see the reason why it shouldn't be here Garcia-Fons 22:58, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  Seems to be a sock-puppet, whose only edits have been today, to a string of AfDs. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 23:19, 23 March 2007 (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.