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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) | Uncle Milty | talk | 01:28, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bekim Berisha[edit]

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Not a really notable figure in any sense of the word. This article fails Wikipedia:Notability. Other than a few news reports from Croatia and Kosovo, not very many reliable sources can be found mentioning him on the web. A search of his name doesn't turn up anything of substance on Google Books. The article itself doesn't cite any sources and one of the pictures in the article is from Facebook and is credited to a relative of his. The creator of the article, Vranina99, has only made one edit on Wikipedia: the one used to make this article. 23 editor (talk) 19:27, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete—This article cites no coverage in secondary sources to establish notability. --Vindeniträden (talk) 23:27, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Not having sources in the article is not a reason to delete (barring a BLP, which this is not). There is no requirement that sources be in an article; WP:V only requires that such sources exist and be in some way verifiable. (Also there are, now, sources in the article). - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 12:57, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bosnia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:01, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Croatia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:01, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Kosovo-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:01, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:01, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep ~~as long as sources can be found~~. If the article is accurate, he was a brigadier-general (albeit promoted posthumously) and has been considerably honoured within his country, including being appointed a Hero of Kosovo. He would therefore qualify both under WP:SOLDIER and WP:ANYBIO. ~~But we do need sources to authenticate these claims~~. -- Necrothesp (talk) 17:16, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm now satisfied that there are sufficient sources to verify the claims and thus keep the article. -- Necrothesp (talk) 22:03, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I was able to verify the basic claims of notability from a Croatian source, prune some junk, and add a few more factoids as well. It's not far from the threshold of WP:SIGCOV as it is, and if I could read Albanian, I'm sure it would be possible to find. Just clean up the puffery. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 22:19, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. General officer rank clears WP:SOLDIER, and from what is available there is enough here to establish notability. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 12:57, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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