Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Omeljan Pritsak

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The result was keep. DGG ( talk ) 00:24, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Omeljan Pritsak

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The subject doesn't have significant coverage in media and as well as reliable source. --Yuriy Urban (talk) 13:49, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The article needs new references, but that alone is not really enough for deleting it. His obituary seems to support his notability, and there is a lot of coverage in various sources. Fresh sources are rarer, but notability is not temporary. This is an article in need of cleanup and referencing, so outright deletion would be too harsh. WP:NOTTEMPORARY and WP:DELETIONISNOTCLEANUP. Ceosad (talk) 18:42, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I added a few references for the article to better prove Pritsak's notability. Ceosad (talk) 19:19, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This article was created with the wrong template and never transcluded to a daily log. Fixed now--I offer no opinion on the nomination itself at this time. @Yuriy Urban: Please see WP:AFDHOWTO for the proper procedures for future nominations. Thanks. --Finngall ^talk 17:31, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. --Finngall ^talk 17:34, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ukraine-related deletion discussions. --Finngall ^talk 17:34, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Finngall: I do not understand English. Delete this page --Yuriy Urban (talk) 18:01, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Frivolous nomination. " ... HURI's founder, Omeljan Pritsak, the first Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and a scholar of broad scope and erudition, who served as the Institute's first director until his retirement in 1989". The founder of an institute at Harvard is certainly notable. 84.73.134.206 (talk) 18:29, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Snow keep. Named professorship at Harvard, founder and director of a notable research institute, founder and editor-in-chief of a notable journal, highly cited for a historian, multiple books widely held in libraries, a two-volume festschrift and a memorial monograph in his honour, multiple obituaries in national newspapers and peer reviewed journals (cited in the article)... this passes both WP:PROF and the WP:GNG with flying colours. Nominator has completely failed to do a proper WP:BEFORE. – Joe (talk) 18:53, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Snow keep. In addition to all of the above, here is a lengthy news obituary from the Boston Globe thru HighBeam Research, describing him as an "internationally renowned scholar in Ukrainian studies". Clear pass of WP:NACADEMIC and WP:GNG. --Arxiloxos (talk) 19:21, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Snow keep. We're just not going to delete named professors at Harvard with so many published sources. Clear pass of both WP:PROF and WP:GNG. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:16, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Snow keep. Pritsak is a prominent figure for the new Ukrainian science. Coming to Ukraine at the end of soviet era he acquired some opponents among the old soviet bureaucracy. The traces of that criticism we see in Ukrainian wiki today. Some users are vandalising Pritsak`s legacy. So this nomination is probably from that sort of subjective negativity. Mykola Swarnyk (talk) 23:50, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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