Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Gradsky

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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 of the debate was speedy keep. Expanded to demonstrate notability. More coming soon. A note of reproach to user:Vald (the stub creator): leaving just a line without any reference is really bad and costed many people lots of trouble. `'mikka (t) 03:21, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alexander Gradsky

Short vanity article, don't know this person. Mostly Rainy 02:20, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Keep. This is tough, as, yes, the article as currently written provides no context, but it appears he meets WP:MUSIC via this reprint from the New York Daily News. The problem is taht a lot of the results come up in Russian, a language I don't know. John Denver's official site seems to back up the recording claim here. So I dunno. There may, in fact, be two notable Gradsky's if this one didn't do rock music, too, but at the moment this needs to be expanded, which I will try to do right now and more of fairly soon, as it's 10:30pm at the moment. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEMES?) 02:31, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Actually this is one and the same: he did Russian rock music. `'mikka (t) 03:23, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep and expand this is a significant composer and signer, I will write an article today or tomorrow. The current stub is almost uselessabakharev 02:32, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep and expand per abakharev. "don't know this person" should be a reason to learn/ask (FYI, we have Portal:Russia) rather than delete. ←Humus sapiens ну? 02:53, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
That would be great, but the course of action most of us take when we come across a short bio article about somoene we don't know is tag it for speedy or nominate it for AFD. See WP:HOLE. Mostly Rainy 03:06, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Most of us actually can and do use google to augment one's own ignorance. Believe me, it often helps a lot. `'mikka (t) 03:12, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep and expand per abakharev and Humus sapiens. —DDima (talk) 02:55, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Notability in Russia and Soviet Union beyond any doubts. `'mikka (t) 03:21, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
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.