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 keep. WP:AFD is rarely used for clean up - please discuss on talk page, reach out to Russian speakers or Cyrillic readers, and improve!

Thank you everyone for participating and assuming good faith. If you disagree with this decision, please take your objections and concerns to Deletion Review instead of my talk page. Thanks again and happy holidays! Missvain (talk) 23:52, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Publishing houses in the Soviet Union (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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The article is largely written in Cyrillic with interspersed translation for maybe half the text. It has been in that state for 15+ years. I would be happy if someone where willing (and better able than me) to make this a useful overview of the topic. But, failing that, it is simply not adequate for public consumption. K. Oblique 04:29, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. K. Oblique 04:29, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. K. Oblique 04:29, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. K. Oblique 04:29, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. It might be worthwhile to add Roman transliterations for the names of individual publishers, but this is a notable topic and the article includes references. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 10:16, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - The article is in a poor state, but someone who can read Russian could probably improve it substantially. The subject is almost certainly notable. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 01:18, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• keep the article has solid scholarly sourcs cited. Unfortunately this is one of the notable topics wikipedians dont give a shit. - Altenmann >talk 20:20, 27 November 2021 (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.