Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Piotr Bikont

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The result was no consensus. (non-admin closure) —Gƒoley Four— 03:48, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Piotr Bikont[edit]

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Biography of a bit of a jack of all trades by the look of it, but with no evidence of significant coverage. There are a few brief mentions in Google Books results which have been recently added to the article. The (unsourced) Polish language article doesn't really indicate notability either, claiming him to be "Co-founder and participant in multiple World Championship Throw a hammer to a TV screen" and film appearances as an actor playing "security guard" and "nurse". Michig (talk) 08:16, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Weak Keep The nominator is right that the sources added don't paint an effective picture of notability, and that's in good part my own fault. Nonetheless, I'm still going to argue that there's some there, centered around his Solidarity-era journalism. Noting that I'm working with the limitations of automated translation, and that the Polish newspaper that dominates his Gnews hits is coughing up 404s on old articles that presumably used to exist, I note the following. First, a 1999 interview on NPR's All Things Considered appears substantial (note: "purchase this transcript" suggests a paywall it coughed up a full transcript for me for free.) The 1998 interview exerpts a 1991 Fresh Air appearance but that looks hard to track down. The Gdansk videotaping event is also covered in pages 1-3 of this book as well as this book (but it's hard to tell how deep the latter books' coverage goes). There's a journalistic award for that or another film in 1988, mentioned here and explained in the less reliable but consistent source here (yes, the Polish Journalists' Association is abbreviated SDP.) Gdansk shipyards aren't the limit of his documentary existence, I note with mentions in the New Yorker and this book on crime. Looks like the article has been stubbed, and that's entirely sensible in my own view, but I lean to the belief there's notability here, and (eventually, with the assistance of someone who can handle the Polish sources more adequately, track down and link his other translation work and, if appropriate, culinary career. (There are a few hints, there, too, Fodor's drops a """one of Poland's renowned food experts" on him in passing at here, for example, but by itself that's not proof of notability.) *shrug* --j⚛e decker ^{talk to me} 23:05, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:04, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 00:17, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NW (Talk) 01:25, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nominator's reasoning. The article as written doesn't assert notability (or much of anything really) and the links appear to just be passing mentions that aren't enough to support an article and especially not a BLP. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:08, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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