Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Leonid S. Sukhorukov
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: delete. Poetlister 22:48, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The subject has been persistently quoted, occasionally with book sources cited, in various WQ theme pages. Given that Wikpedia speedy-deleted it as a vanity article (created by w:User:Leonidsukhorukov), and that I had not found Sukhorukov listed either in Amazon.com or the Library of Congress, I've deleted the theme quotes as likely-unnotables. However, new WQ editor Simon Wardell (talk · contributions) has created this article and provided us with some details about who Sukhorukov is. This may be a good time to determine whether this subject is sufficiently notable for us, which might ultimately help WP decide to allow it (or confirm their deletion). I see now that Sukhorukov does have All About Everything: 400 Daily Aphorisms of a Lifetime available through Amazon UK, although the popularity rank there (767K) doesn't bode well for notability. Regardless of what we may find and decide, the current article almost certainly needs serious trimming as a likely copyio (the All About Everything quotes alone appear to be 10% of the entire 400-aphorism book). More thorough and specific sourcing might help the case to keep. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:30, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Vote closes: 18:00, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
- Delete. If he were really a regular contributor to Krokodil, then I would have said he was at least as notable as a regular contributor to Punch or National Lampoon. But his contribution to Reader's Digest was in "Laughing Matters", one of their reader-contribution columns, which gives me the impression he's just someone who sent a lot of jokes around and got some of them published. His book is published by Pen Press, a vanity press that will publish your book for £49.95. The "press" he touts on his web site is not particularly impressive (such as mentions in the Russian language edition of London Info). All in all, I don't detect notability, and the aphorisms don't particularly lead me to expect notability in the future.--Ubiquity 18:20, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Inclined to doubt notability.--Cato 22:47, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per Cato.Poetlister 23:02, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete ~ UDScott 17:57, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete--Inesculent 20:39, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Jeffq on the ball, as always!--Yehudi 15:21, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. - InvisibleSun 18:33, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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