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The outcome of this request for deletion was to  Delete.  --Ferien (talk) 17:49, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yuri Maltsev (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request

Gordonrox24 has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Not finding anything remarkable about this professor that would make them notable for a Wikipedia article. Gordonrox24 | ^Talk 01:37, 3 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please discuss this request below, but keep in mind that you shouldn't vote on everything and that there may be options other than "keep" or "delete", such as merging.

•  Delete. Avoids the issue of showing evidence of notability (except that he is a senior person). Omits personal data, which is a fundamental requirement. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:09, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Personal data is not required in biographical articles. --Auntof6 (talk) 05:14, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Without dates of birth and death (etc) we might be unable to disambiguate common names. Biographies must contain enough data to disambiguate the individual from others of the same name. Apart from troubles caused by Smith in anglophone countries, think of Korean names as being an extreme case. If we takes newspaper biographies as an example, they do have relevant dates of birth and death if that is at all possible. As an encyclopedia we should mirror practice in other kinds of encyclopedia, I think. Macdonald-ross (talk) 08:16, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I see. The term "personal data" would include more than birth and death dates, so I didn't know you meant only that. I agree that we should have those dates, but even those are not strictly required. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:34, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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