Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Milia Gataullina

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The result was keep. The concerns that the nom brought up (significance of the subject, reliable sources, etc.) have all been discussed and clarified. The article has been updated to include some of these sources and has been improved. It's up to the community to add any of the other sources and information that was brought up during this discussion. (non-admin closure) Dusti ^{*Let's talk!*} 02:30, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Milia Gataullina

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Russian graphic artist and painter. The significance of the person is unclear. Not enough reliable sources.--Kirill Samredny (talk) 20:23, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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~~Delete~~ I see nothing in Google books, GNews, or a search.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 00:18, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Still a bit skeptical but I will go with the evidence provided below. The book mentioned appears real: here is a translation of the contents. Here are actual pcture of the book too. The publisher seems real too but their address is actually an apartment block in Moscow. But anyway.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 05:34, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The search should be done in Russian for "Миля Гатауллина" [1], and it finds a number of sources about her. What convinces me is the existence of a whole book written by someone else specifically about the artist [2]. According to the book about her, she received two significant awards ("только за два последние года отмеченной двумя медалями: золотой – Российской Академии художеств, и серебряной – Союза художников России.")My very best wishes (talk) 03:06, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Google gives two press releases and news mentions.This book is not authoritative. --Kirill Samredny (talk) 04:04, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - Why is it not authoritative? Phil Bridger (talk) 09:05, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - Quite - Worldcat shows it held at Princeton, UCL, Munich. PamD 13:07, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I can't judge how authoritative was the book about the artist published in 2008. But there is a page on ruwiki about the publisher (see ru:Белый город (издательство)), and it looks just fine. So, the book would probably qualify as WP:RS. Regardless, there are multiple significant publications about the person, and she was a recipient of multiple significant awards. My very best wishes (talk) 15:47, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep It appears that the subject meets WP:NARTIST with works in the permanent collections of at least two notable galleries, and she has won significant awards. I am not sure if she is a member of the Russian Academy of Arts - I don't think its website shows that. It does say that she is a member of the Moscow Academy of Artists [3], and that she has been a member of "МСХ" since 2002. Google Translate translates that as the Ministry of Agriculture, which I am sure can't be right - it must be an acronym for more than one organisation. Anyway, she does appear to meet notability guidelines, and there are some sources online which verify the information in the article. No doubt more sources exist offline. (I have added a couple of sources, with titles given as "unknown" - not very satisfactory, but with snippet views the title of the section or article within the journals is not visible.) RebeccaGreen (talk) 09:13, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: subject of a book, works held in major collections, and if my Russian was better I expect that the ghits would be useful. PamD 13:07, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Appears to meet WP:GNG. -- Dane ^talk 04:20, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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