Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dangoule Rasalaite
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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 was redirect to Lilya 4-ever. MastCell Talk 21:35, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dangoule Rasalaite
Article seems to be mostly OR. One reference to a Swedish newspaper is provided but... the article is in Swedish. Doesn't seen to be enough to establish notability. The Parsnip! 02:42, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
- In the absence of evidence of notability independent from the film, which Google searching has failed to provide, merge with Lilya 4-ever. Espresso Addict 02:58, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
- Comment The Swedish Wikipedia has no article on this - Totnesmartin 14:31, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel Case 04:31, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
- Merge, for if the Swedish wiki has no article, and notability cannot be confirmed, merge per above.Ravenmasterq 06:27, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
- Well, the Swedish Wikipedia is not that large, so it can't be expected to have articles about everything related to Sweden. I'm somewhat leaning towards keep, by the way. Punkmorten 08:21, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
- Keep I think the documentary gives historic notability as required by WP:NOT#NEWS Corpx 16:28, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
- Comment. None of the English language publications I turned up when researching this mentioned Dangoule Rasalaite explicitly; the claim that she is the inspiration for the film (by no means a documentary), as far as I'm aware, rests on the Swedish newspaper. Espresso Addict 10:50, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
- Delete. Since Dangoule Rasalaite is dead, this can't be a BLP issue. However, our unsourced article remains the #1 Google hit for her name. I think it's unwise to preserve unsourced information indefinitely, since there's no guarantee that it is correct. Our existing article on the film Lilya 4-ever preserves the name Dangoule Rasalaite, so the connection is still there. I think we should not have a free-standing article on Dangoule unless we have sources. I read the New York Times review of the film, but it doesn't mention her name, possible due to the difficulty of checking the facts. There is no Babelfish available for translating from Swedish to English, so it's hard to figure out what the Swedish newspaper is saying. I'd believe the quoted date of her death, since no translator is needed for that, but it doesn't seem enough for an article. EdJohnston 20:52, 30 July 2007 (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.
