Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stilyagi

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The result was delete. One 06:41, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stilyagi

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Dicdef. Put definition in the TMIAHM article, and delete. Kolindigo 18:35, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. I agree; it's not even an English word. —METS501 (talk) 18:52, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete: Nonsense; per nom. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 19:53, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, I think there's a lot of room for expansion on this. A quick google search turned up this from Reason Mag

"These young men were to become known in Russian as stilyagi, a term that is usually translated as "style hunters"; their story has been told by a number of authors, including Artemy Troitsky, Timothy W. Ryback, and S. Frederick Starr. The stilyagi constitute one of the most remarkable movements in the rich history of oppositional subcultures. What they had turned themselves into were walking cultural protests against Stalinism in one of its most paranoid periods. All that Stalin had melted into air, the stilyagi made flesh." [1] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nhelm83 (talk • contribs) 20:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

• Keep, 264 Google Books results suggest expandability. It had a brief currency in Western media as well (mostly after the fad itself had peaked). --Dhartung | Talk 01:41, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep but move I believe this was a genuine youth cult in the USSR, see [2] for instance. Should be moved to the singular Stilyaga (stilyagi is the plural). Obviously it needs sourcing. Will investigate further when I've sorted the Cyrillic on my computer out. But almost certainly worthy of a substantial article. --Folantin 12:13, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

OK. стиляга gets 52,800 Google hits and стиляги gets 39,400. IIRC it is used in a general sense to mean any "fashion victim", but there was also a specific Soviet youth cult that went by the name and at least one of the articles on the first page of Google results refers to it. --Folantin 12:22, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

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