Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Svitlana Pyrkalo

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The result was keep. Sandstein 16:12, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Svitlana Pyrkalo[edit]

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I think the subject's notability is questionable. I could only find sources that are directly connected to her (like an organization where she is in the board of trustees, or articles she contributed to at the BBC. Nothing independent, or in-depth. I searched in Ukrainian too (I speak Russian, so I can read a little Ukrainian). I get mostly stuff that was copied from her wiki article. The links in the article itself are all directly connected to her, except that book review, but the link is dead and I cannot find this article in the Canadian Slavonic Papers on jSTOR. Xia ^{talk to me} 08:00, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per norm. --Vaco98 (talk) 11:09, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Notable as a Ukrainian writer with five authored works including her dictionary of Ukrainian slang which was reviewed in two scholarly journals. I easily found the review in the Canadian Slavonic Papers on JSTOR and added it to the article. May also be notable as a Ukrainian journalist. Her fiction has received scholarly attention and has been included in a number of anthologies of Ukrainian writing. Selected as one of the Ukrainian "young intellectuals" to contribute an essay to New Europe in 2018. Detailed biographical profile at the Czech literary journal iLiteratura.cz which specialises in minority languages. She is not the only Ukrainian woman writing in her native language to have her notability questioned recently. Philafrenzy (talk) 12:44, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and Lists of people. _signed,511KeV ^(talk) 11:23, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women, Journalism, Ukraine, and United Kingdom. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:48, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment She is discussed in context in "Emerging Ukrainian Women Prose Writers: Twenty Years After Independence" (World Literature Today, 2011), and mentioned in Politico EU newsletters in 2018 and 2019. Beccaynr (talk) 00:07, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I cannot access the first one, the second and third are mentions only, not in-depth about her. Xia ^{talk to me} 12:37, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
In World Literature Today, discussion includes her mentor (further discussed in the WP article): "That sometimes painfully candid and personally focused aspect of Zabuzhko’s writing has been taken up by a number of other younger women writers including Svitlana Pyrkalo, [...] Like Zabuzhko in her pathbreaking novel, all these younger writers (ages 29–37) focus on urban life, use scatological and substandard language, tend toward the confessional, and, in a quite frank manner, describe their sexual experiences—largely ironically—as well as their inner emotional lives, usually in turmoil" and also notes with introductory context about journalism training in Ukraine, "Pyrkalo and Sniadanko work as print and media journalists". The article is focused overall on "the tradition of Ukrainian women’s prose fiction". Beccaynr (talk) 03:46, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Notable author with enough reliable sources proving said notability.--SouthernNights (talk) 17:02, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
where are those sources? Xia ^{talk to me} 12:37, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep ,,, has published at least nine books, one that was adapted into film. She has plenty of reliable sources that direct to her. Agree with SouthernNights...Whispyhistory (talk) 17:17, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Additions to the article and sources identified in this discussion help support WP:BASIC notability as an author. Beccaynr (talk) 17:21, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: The article is in the process of improvement, new sources have been added - we need more participation to access the notability now.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Less Unless (talk) 06:34, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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