Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yuriy Abramochkin

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. (non-admin closure) — Yash! ^(Y) 00:48, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yuriy Abramochkin

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

Biography of a living person that does not show notability asnac (talk) 08:08, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To add more information: The references are almost all to websites showing his photos. There is no article in the Russian Wikipedia. asnac (talk) 09:12, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - No significant & notable information is available on internet or print media. Preeti Sharma's Knowledge (talk) 09:23, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Question. What kind of survey of print media did you carry out, User:Preeti Sharma's Knowledge? -- Hoary (talk) 14:24, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:21, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Photography-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:21, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:21, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:22, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Don't know yet, but if he really is in (some edition of) Contemporary Photographers (as the article claims), that's a big plus. -- Hoary (talk) 14:24, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Response. This work is not referenced in the article but looking for clues on a Russian website it's probably this, from 1995, i.e. before Wikipedia killed off books like that! asnac (talk) 16:55, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, Asnac, I read: Yuri Abramochkin is one of 15 Russian photojournalists included in the encyclopedia “Contemporary Photographers”. I'm not sure what you mean by "referenced", but a book of this title (perhaps one of the three editions of this particular book) is mentioned in the article. -- Hoary (talk) 23:36, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
To clarify, I meant that there's no footnote reference to the edition, page number etc., hence it's hard to verify. asnac (talk) 08:02, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The book is not available online, being published in 1995. I've ordered my copy, which should arrive by 7th of June and I will be able to provide the page number at the reference. In addition, the articles provided as references are the secondary sources with information about the photographer, contrary to claim above that they contain only photographs. Please, note the article is about someone who was mostly active from 60s till 90s, so it's not easy to find many online sources. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 10:24, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
That may be helpful. Be careful of going to trouble or expense if the article would be deleted anyway - see the guidance in WP:ARTIST. asnac (talk) 11:12, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I am still interested in the book, since it allows to find a lot of information of those, working in non digital age. Still, I think other reference provide enough basis for his inclusion. He is one of the most revered photojournalist of Soviet era. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 12:08, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
If so then maybe there are additional Russian-language websites that acknowledge his contribution. If you can find some links that (for example) say that he's accepted by fellow professionals as being influential in his field, and/or give independent reviews of his work, that would help towards establishing notability. asnac (talk) 13:36, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Easily meets WP:ARTIST #1. Featured in length in Contemporary Photographers which refers to him as "one of the leading Soviet Agency photographers". Winner of the Golden Eye award [1] among others. If that isn't enough, the foreward of his book, Russia As I See Her is written by Mikhail Gorbachev himself. [2] - NQ (talk) 15:52, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I orginally nominated this page for deletion but the article is now well referenced and there is no question in my view of notability. Thanks to NQ and Hoary for their research and the improvements to the article. asnac (talk) 17:20, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep So, with the outcome of this discussion, I will remove proposal for deletion tag Arthistorian1977 (talk) 11:33, 30 April 2015 (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.