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) Erik9 (talk) 01:08, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Aleksey Vysotsky (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

The article has had a notability tag for a few months now. Searches on Google (news, scholar, &c.) reveal nothing to establish notability. Nothing in the body of the article suggests he's especially notable. Alexrexpvt (talk) 20:34, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. -- — LinguistAtLarge • Talk  22:47, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• The language (such as the clumsy use of the incorrect pronoun in "It is demobilised in 1959 in a rank of the colonel.") suggests that this is an automatic translation, which indicates that there is a host of hidden problems less obvious to someone who can't read the original. The Russian Wikipedia article appears well-referenced, and I will assume that he is significant enough for an article, but this article is probably not useful. Regardless of whether this page is deleted or not, the article would need to be restarted from scratch. --Hegvald (talk) 09:36, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. This is a direct translation of the Russian Wikipedia article, and as Hegvald says, appears to be a machine translation. I've listed it for cleanup at Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English. Phil Bridger (talk) 14:04, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep From the article, notability would be as an author & journalist. As is frequent with machine translation, there is more information in the Russian article than was "translated" in the enWp article: for example, a biography: "on the war years of Alexei V. Vysotsky, and his wife Alexandra Ivanovna Vysotskaya," p. 113-130 in The Young Guard by Evdokimova E. Alexey and Alexander, Collection «Danko». - Moscow:, 1975. 3rd ed. (To have managed as a Jew to have risen to Colonel in the Soviet Army, during the 1950s is a significant accomplishment, but not necessary encyclopedic.). DGG (talk) 03:05, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:03, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - My Russian is rusty but I'll work on it a bit. He is clearly encyclopedic - even in an Anglo/Amer-centric encyclopedia like Wikipedia. I'll have to find some spare time so give me a couple of days. La Chaim or Hа здоровье - Williamborg (Bill) 01:13, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Finished editing & still a Keep - Give this version a read. Hа здоровье - Williamborg (Bill) 15:00, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. War hero, Jewish Colonel in the Russian army, and author of 4 books is sufficient. Uncle of, subject of a song by, and producer of first professional quality recording of Vladimir Vysotsky, in addition, is something that would probably qualify by itself. --GRuban (talk) 16:09, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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