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Weak keep To what extent is this discussion driven by ignorance and laziness? The guy is Ukrainian, he writes in Ukrainian, but did anyone search for the Ukrainian term Дерманський Олександр Степанович. Did anyone check the Ukrainian page, three sources are listed and the claims of awards won would indicate pass per WP:GNG? The article is not fantastic and I'm also too lazy to attempt to penetrate the sources in that language, but that's a bad deletion rationale. MrCleanOut (talk) 15:44, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I can't read Cyrillic languages very well (although I'm attempting to learn Russian), but at least one of them appears to be an unreliable source. Do we have any way of judging the reliability of that information? The mere presence of an article on another Wiki is not, in itself, conclusive or supportive proof of the subject's notability (although it may indicate their relative importance. Ironholds (talk) 07:41, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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