Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Vasiliev

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete --Gareth Hughes 17:22, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Vasiliev

Delete - No sources provided. If claims made for him were true, Comrade Vasiliev would almost certainly have been made a Marshal of the Soviet Union, and he wasn't. Caerwine 17:45, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

~~Keep seems notable, verifiable and is well written. See Google hits [1] also. Take care, File:Smilie.gifMolotov File:Caranimationforvmolotov.gif (talk)~~

- I apparently was looking at the wrong article - it is not well written, so I say it needs a "cleanup" at the least. File:Smilie.gifMolotov (talk)
  00:35, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Cleanup Mikhailov Vasiliev is notable at Stalingrad. The article needs cleanup - written by non-native English speaker. Dlyons493 Talk 18:37, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Could you give us the basis for your claim? Are you from Stalingrad (sic) or something? -Splash^talk 20:39, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  - No, I think I've got this muddled. What I was referring to seem to be codenames used between Stalin (Vasiliev) and Vasilievsky (Mikhailov). Dlyons493 Talk 21:08, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I have been unable to find verifiable information about "Michael Vasiliev" having any significant role in the Russian army see [2]. "Mikhailov Vasilievsky" comes up with Russian ice hockey players see [3]. Aleksandr Vasilevsky, supervisor of the Stalingrad front had a middle name of Mikhailov and we already have an article on him. This name is so far removed from the real name that it is useless as a redirect. Capitalistroadster 18:56, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Merely finding some Google hits isn't meaningful unless you check that the Google hits actually apply to the topic of the article, which they largely do not in this case: the first hit is this article. On the other hand, the absence of Google success that Capitalistroadster finds renders the article with serious verifiability problems. The article is also largely written in the absurd which makes taking its topic seriously the more difficult. -Splash^talk 20:39, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Google for "mikhail vasiliev army" or 'михвйл василиев" turns up no relevant results. the iBook of the Revolution 22:39, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Wacky claims, no references, lack of verification and bigass POV problems... Yeah, delete. -- Captain Disdain 00:49, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.