Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vasily Sitnikov

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The result was WP:SNOW keep. (non-admin closure)‎ Geschichte (talk) 20:46, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vasily Sitnikov

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This entire article is unsourced. It is also may not be notable, i was able to find a few russian sites writing about this person but i doubt they are reliable. SolxrgashiUnited (talk) 17:13, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. SolxrgashiUnited (talk) 17:13, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Arts and Russia. Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 17:16, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:54, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Looks clearly notable. A full-length feature film was even made on his life! BeanieFan11 (talk) 19:57, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - The article is completely unsourced; in the external links there is a link to a blog entry with and the link to the "documentary" is a dead EL link, and the WP article on the documentary is also unsourced, and simply has two external links one to IMDb (unreliable user submitted content) and a link to the filmmaker's LLC. The WP:BEFORE search I did only brought up commercial galleries and auction sites, which are primary connected sources that are non-independent. We would need more than that to establish notability. BeanieFan11 could you please present three fully-independent verifiable, published reliable sources that provide significant coverage (per WP:THREE) for this artist?
- I have zero knowledge of Russian art, but he seems to be a legendary figure. A full-length feature film is obviously SIGCOV; then you have a book from 2022 on his life, dozens of book mentions, etc. According to the Russian Wikipedia some of his work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University and other prestigious museums which would satisfy WP:NARTIST ([has] been represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums.). He looks clearly notable; the inexperienced nominating user has been indiscriminately mass nominating dozens of random articles for deletion, almost all of which have clear keep consensuses. BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:24, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - based on the sources found by BeanieFan11. Netherzone (talk) 23:19, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - added sources to article to show notability as an artist. Biographical claims remain unsourced. They appear to be mostly a direct translation of [https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 un sourced Russian Wikipedia article. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:59, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - there are three reliable sources in the article at this moment. That’s sufficient for most articles. In addition, he has five works of art in the collections of MoMA, indicating that he passes WP:NARTIST. Bearian (talk) 13:42, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - removed unsourced material. I hope someone can find RS about his life story.--WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:34, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Current sources clearly show that the article is eligible SparklingBlueMoon (talk) 15:44, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per BeanieFan11. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 17:43, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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