Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anatoliy Andreyev

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 17:48, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Anatoliy Andreyev[edit]

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No infobox, two refs, two lines of text -- this article only contains two sentences, and definitely not enough references for a biographical article. It's barely standing due to the fact that he composed some important music; it also is using a wrong type of referencing. I was going to tag this as A7 but because this person composed a country's anthem music, I decided against it. Wiki Pancake ^{✉ 📖} 13:26, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - The corresponding Russian article uses the same two refs (both of which are poor as RS). The only information on any Anatoliy Andreyev in English language texts was an intelligence officer. This person may qualify per WP:COMPOSER, but if there are no sources from which to create a biography we can't invent a bio, and he's credited in the Anthem of the Republic of Buryatia article. Wikipedia is WP:NOTWHOSWHO. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:38, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:28, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:28, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep -- I located this reference to the subject having authored an opera:

The Buryat epic Geser, a gem of the multi-faceted Buryat oral tradition and an outstanding monument of the world’s epic poetry. Geser: Buryat Epic is a digital publication providing information about the main oral versions of Geseriade in the Buryat language and about its best-known narrators, collectors and researchers. The database contains a bibliography on Geseriade (more than 500 entries), an e-library (152 texts, 6 digital versions of the best-known editions of the Buryat version of Geser in the Russian and Buryat lanaguages), rare photographs, audio and video footage, a video lesson, and a videotaped production of Anatoly Andreyev’s opera Geser in the Buryat language. Source: Linguistic and Cultural Diversity, p. 287, issued by Comission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO.

Here's a bio article from the web site "Academic Music of Siberia": ANATOLY ANDREEV: COMPOSER AND HIS TIMES. Google Translate shows that it's a reasonably in-depth, by-lined article.

I suspect that more sources would be available offline, given that most of his career took place in the pre-internet era, and / or in Russian, as the subject appears to be one of the leading composers of the Buryat nation. K.e.coffman (talk) 03:54, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note -- I added content and references to the article. Now meets WP:COMPOSER #1 (has credit for writing or co-writing either lyrics or music for a notable composition) and #2 (has written musical theatre of some sort (includes musicals, operas, etc.) that was performed in a notable theatre). K.e.coffman (talk) 08:29, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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