Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Levon Harutyunyan

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 keep. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:18, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Levon Harutyunyan

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Non notable person. Google news search returns no hits [1], and Google books search returns one hit [2] without significant coverage. All the sources cited in the article are written by the subject (not reliable). Vanjagenije (talk) 22:23, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Maybe rather too quick to start an AfD, was done only a few hours after the article was created. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 00:33, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Armenia-related deletion discussions. lavender|(formerlyHMSSolent|lambast 01:35, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. lavender|(formerlyHMSSolent|lambast 01:37, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:38, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Levon Harutyunyan was born in the Soviet Union, which was the reason his works have not been published in any languages other than Armenian and Russian. However, his work has left a tremendous impact on the development of Armenian science, and if he had been born in another country he would have been much more notable in the international scientific community. Besides, he is the founder of the Armenia's largest private University, for which reaason I think he deserves a page in Wikipedia. I will be improving the article and adding more references and pictures which will hopefully make his work and personality look more relevant. Diana Balasanyan (talk) 11:25, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep The claim that Harutyunyan founded Haybusak University seems to be confirmed by this (unfortunately leading to a dead link, hopefully better sources can be found). GS doesn't come up with much either, but perhaps his name was transcribed differently. Given his birth date, I would expect that the bulk of his publications were not only in Armenian/Russian, but also pre-Internet, so that the absence of GNews hits and such is to be expected. Some independent RS would be nice, though... --Randykitty (talk) 12:38, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment (To) Diana Welcome Diana. 'Pictures' will not add much to the notability of the professor. Please try hard to find 'multiple independent reliable sources' instead. These may well be in Russian and Armenian or in any other language, as long as we can trust them and they prove notability. You have -at least- one week of discussion period. Try 'Harutyunian' also. --Why should I have a User Name? (talk) 06:29, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep A scholar that has founded a university seems pretty notable to me. This is confirmed on the official website of the University. And the fact that he is an author of 400 research papers and about 400 essays appears to be confirmed by several reliable sources as well. And being awarded for this by the President of Armenia is no small feat. Étienne Dolet (talk) 22:31, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Update I have updated the article to Wikipedia standards. The user who created it appears to be fairly new and that may be one of the reasons why this AfD occurred. I will continue to expand the article and add necessary sources. Étienne Dolet (talk) 02:48, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep due to above promise. The recent sources added seem not to be sufficient enough. --Why should I have a User Name? (talk) 07:55, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: subject of the article meet WP:GNG as founder of a university. This source support the claim that he was the founder of Haybusak University of Yerevan. The fact that sources are difficult to verify has not make a subject non-notable. It is very likely that the sources are not in english perhaps, pre-internet. Wikicology (talk) 13:23, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: notability established by his founding of an important educational institute, his list of publications, as well as his academic status. Article is also in a much better state now than when AfD was initiated. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 14:52, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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