Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leonid Korchmar

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This article have no other sources other then Mariinsky Theatre external link. Suggest deletion.--Mishae (talk) 17:29, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

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• Comment. A look at the main list of Mariinsky orchestra personnel [http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/company/orchestra1/conductors/] clarifies that he is "Assistant Conductor". I found just a little about him in English, mentioning a few performances conducted by him and on occasion that he had been a teacher to another conductor. Otherwise the implication is apparently that he's Valery Gergiev's assistant. The Russian version of this article doesn't seem to have anything more.[http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fru.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%87%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B4_%D0%9E%D0%B2%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87] On the other hand, there's his status as Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation; I don't know how much notability this conveys, although we do have several articles about this and related awards (see Meritorious Artist; People's Artist of the USSR; People's Artist of Russia) and a category for winners of this honor. --Arxiloxos (talk) 16:24, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
• For that we at least need a primary source which will be used as a ref, otherwise we can assume that the editor made it all up.--Mishae (talk) 04:20, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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• Keep. Korchmar is now an assistant conductor, but he was once head of the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Opera, until Gergiev (who was head of the theatre), did a re-shuffle in the 1990s and made himself head of opera. See [http://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=pdvzUu3WJ4Py7AaU2YGQDg&id=rU8IAQAAMAAJ&dq=korchmar+Gergiev&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=korchmar Valery Gergiev and the Kirov: a story of survival], p. 256. There is also an interview with Korchmar in a major Russian-language newspaper in Estonia [http://www.vesti.ee/ru/estonia/news/4281.html]. Voceditenore (talk) 19:04, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep per voceditenore.4meter4 (talk) 01:35, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
• Keep per Arxiloxos and Voceditenore. The sources to verify his notability are clearly out there if anyone cares to add them to the article. --Deskford (talk) 18:08, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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