Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Likhterman

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The result was keep. no arguments for deletion MINUS the nom JForget 01:02, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

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Contested prod. Subject is Russian doctor (1902 - 1967). Not wholly convinced of notability so bringing to afd. Could not find any reliable sources but that may be because subject died a long time ago. Article mentions a book about subject but could find mention of it. Obscure mention in the book [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0eJsAAAAMAAJ&q=boleslav+Likhterman&dq=boleslav+Likhterman&hl=en&ei=btk5TPCDDcH98AaqqpWnBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg World directory of physical medicine specialists]. SPA. Christopher Connor (talk) 14:56, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Keep - Sufficient achievements and sourcing to merit inclusion. Article is not written to style, including in particular the title, which needs to be changed. Carrite (talk) 16:12, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:25, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:26, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

: The editor who has launched the article has been in touch with me and I will be making a couple changes, including the title. Please give this article a little time, new editor from Russia. Carrite (talk) 02:53, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

:: Now that I'm working on the piece, I see that Likhterman is the subject of a book published in Moscow in 2002: A Man of Light. The Centennial of Professor Boleslav V. Likhterman. This would seem to strongly bolster the case for notability. I'll see if I can accentuate his importance in the rewrite. Carrite (talk) 03:59, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

::: I ran a Google search for "B.V. Likhterman" this morning and it does indeed seem that there is enough material in the ether to constitute notability. [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=B.V.+Likhterman&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= GOOGLE QUERY]. Carrite (talk) 14:33, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Keep - There's enough material about him on the Net, in spite of him dying a long time ago. He made some important contributions. --Dyuku (talk) 21:45, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Weak keep. The article certainly needs some clean-up but the subject does appear notable. There was a detailed biographical article about him[http://berkovich-zametki.com/Nomer36/Shkurko1.htm] (in Russian) in 2003 in a webmagazine 'Notes on Jewish History'. I have added it to the list of refs. That article also mentions that in 2002 a book of memoirs (recollections by various other medical researchers about his life and work) about him was published in Russia, dedicated to his 100th anniversary. The book was already listed in the References section (A Man of Light: For the Centennial of Professor Boleslav V. Likhterman). Ordinarily, a book like that would certainly justify a solid keep, but it was edited by his son, Leonid Likhterman (apparently also a notable medical researcher), which somewhat depreciates its value as an independent source. Still, according to this library catalog[http://82.207.126.95:1280/cgi-bin/irbis64r_72/cgiirbis_64.exe?C21COM=S&I21DBN=IBIS&P21DBN=IBIS&S21FMT=fullw&S21ALL=(%3C.%3EK%3DСАРАТОВ$%3C.%3E%2B%3C.%3EK%3DВАЛЕРИ$%3C.%3E%2B%3C.%3EK%3DВЛАДИМИРОВИЧ$%3C.%3E)&FT_REQUEST=&FT_PREFIX=&Z21ID=&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21CNR=20], the book is 495 pages long, so I assume it includes chapters by quite a few people who are independent of the subject. Also, I added a ref[http://www.worldcat.org/title/boleslav-vladimirovich-likhterman/oclc/103824516&referer=brief_results] to a 1967 obituary about him in a Russian medical journal (of which, however, he was an editor, which again somewhat deprecates the value of this ref). Still, all in all, I think there is enough here to pass WP:BIO, even if the case is not strong. Nsk92 (talk) 06:05, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

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