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Ukraine

Anastasiia Veresova

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Fails WP:SPORTSCRIT and WP:NGYMNAST. The only "sources" I could find are youtube clips of her. LibStar (talk) 05:16, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete – Fails in WP:GNG. Svartner (talk) 05:29, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Andrii Kobchyk

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Declined prod suggesting sources may exist for name in Cyrillic "Андрій Кобчик". Google news comes up with 2 sources but they are mere 1 line small mentions. Fails WP:SPORTSCRIT and WP:NGYMNAST. LibStar (talk) 01:51, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete – Fails in WP:GNG. Svartner (talk) 02:59, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Not my job to look into this, but I'm the one who de-prodded. Seems to be quite a few hits online, hence the de-prod. Apologies in advance to those either unwilling or unable to source information in a non-English language. It's probably why Wikipedia has the biases that it does. In any case, in my extremely limited abilities, it took this American about 30 seconds to find this, which appears to be a short feature from a Ukrainian news outlet, with smaller routine coverage to supplement here, here, and here. Here's another Ukrainian news mention with a similar/identical(?) story here. Additional mentions here, here, here, here, here, etc. He's not going to have a whole 50-set encyclopedia dedicated to him, most people don't, but if someone took the time to add those references plus whatever else is floating out there, he's probably in the top 90th percentile of sourced material for biographies. GauchoDude (talk) 15:30, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Dragonfly

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Article has been sitting since its creation on 25 October 2023, having not been expanded at all since then. It is about a unique, out of many, Ukrainian strike against Russian forces. The only reason why it could be notable would be for it being the first instance of ATACMS usage by Ukraine in the war, according to the article.

The first results when looking up "Operation Dragonfly" on Google aren't even about the invasion of Ukraine. In five pages of results in Google, I could only find the following sources about this strike: [1] [2] [3].

I could find more sources without using the "Operation Dragonfly" name. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]. The most recent source is the latter, from 23 October, six days after the strike happened. I do not believe the strike has long-lasting coverage in sources. Simply by reading the article, the strike surely was not nothing, but it doesn't seem worth a Wikipedia article. Super Ψ Dro 20:34, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 23:15, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete No evidence that this was a significant event. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:04, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and Redirect It's true that the article is relatively short and the page might not have merit to exist on its own, but that doesn't mean the content is not worthy to exist at all. It would be better if the information are merged onto a larger page that discusses airstrikes in the war, because this page is certainly not the only one and there are many more similar to this one in Category:Attacks on military installations in Ukraine or Category:Ukrainian airstrikes during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I would also prefer this page become a redirect after the merge as it is still the first result after a google search. TeddyRoosevelt1912 (talk) 15:21, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Super Dromaeosaurus, @Shwabb1, @NickK, @Aleksandr Grigoryev For discussion TeddyRoosevelt1912 (talk) 15:23, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the invitation. Hard to say:

On one hand, this is likely the first ever use of ATACAMS by Ukraine, with significant (from military point of view) result. As such this is a notable enough military operation and it has enough sources.
On the other hand, it is very likely that no further information about this operation will be released until the war ends (for obvious reasons). As a result, this article will likely stay in current state for a while.

I would read this that fundamentally this is a notable military operation, but practically we will not be able to improve this article further for unknown period of time — NickK (talk) 23:45, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that's the case as well. Overall I don't mind the idea of merging this into a larger article that lists major airstrikes including this one, as this article is quite small on its own and, as you've said, we're not getting much more info on it any time soon. Shwabb1 ⟨ta co⟩ 01:11, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Battle of Basivka

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Not notable. Sources do not seem to treat this engagement as a notable event. In fact many news articles don't even bother with mentioning the village's name in the headline [9] [10] [11] [12] [13].

Literally all information is already present in parent article 2025 Sumy Oblast incursion. The exception are the following two senteces: According to Ruslan Mykula the Russian forces tried to advance into Loknia but failed, all eight soldiers involved in the attempt have been killed. (information about a small raid, not even a date is given, the info might not even be worth merging); and On April 9, Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets reported that Russia’s 76th Air Assault Division and 83rd VDV Brigade had successfully seized Basivka. (with the 24 April confirmation, this is superfluous).

Parent article currently has 1,503 words of prose [14], very far from the recommended 6,000-word threshold after which a split is plausible [15]. The village in question had 644 people in 2001. It is a small, probably unstrategic village, sources do not particularly highlight its importance. Many users in this topic area insist on creating articles that are evidently not notable, for random engagements. Super Ψ Dro 19:51, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Support I don’t even understand why such an article was created in the first place. Basivka as it stands is effectively irrelevant in the larger picture of this war. It serves effectively no strategic value, nor is the settlement notable or relevant in media. This article was created as a spur of the moment when Russia launched its incursion into Sumy Oblast, and is effectively covered in its entirety by its parent article. IiSmxyzXX (talk) 09:57, 21 May 2025 (UTC) Non-extended confirmed editor. Mellk (talk) 10:20, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support Per reason Above Bukansatya (talk) 11:49, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support Per notability issue 78.81.123.235 (talk) 13:16, 22 May 2025 (UTC) The current date and time is 25 May 2025 T 01:34 UTC. Non-extended confirmed editor. Mellk (talk) 10:20, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Slavik Pustovoytov

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:ENT. Social media popularity and a minor film role aren't enough for notability. Mooonswimmer 17:14, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. No notable contributions to social media culture. --ArdynOfTheAncients (talk) 17:43, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Fails WP:GNG. Madeleine (talk) 21:50, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Anzhelika Bielova

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it does not demonstrate notability through independent, reliable sources, offering only trivial or self-published coverage. It also reads like a promotional biography and lacks the depth, neutrality, and verifiability required by Wikipedia standards. Oia-pop (talk) 05:48, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment given that only 1 minute passed between your previous AFD and this one, did you do any check WP:BEFORE? MarioGom (talk) 19:42, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, the significance of the persona is confirmed by independent sources. There is a suspicion that the nominator is a sock of an experienced editor, given the number of edits and indiscriminate nominations for deletion by me alone. Greenhalle (talk) 14:31, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 11:55, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question: What's the role of the Ukrainian Women's Congress? Is it a quasi-governmental organization? Bearian (talk) 01:53, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:27, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I'm leaning keep but since I don't understand the Ukrainian language, it would be much better if the titles of articles in Ukrainian (most of the references here) were translated into English in the References section. That would make it easier for me to evaluate this article. I added a reference from the Guardian into the article. Nnev66 (talk) 16:34, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per significance, notability 78.81.123.235 (talk) 11:04, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vyry bus–train collision

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Causing deaths and being reported in the news do not confer notability. Fails WP:EVENT. The only lasting coverage I can find is where it's described in one paragraph in an article about train collisions (in Ukrainian). Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 02:00, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. I find it hard to accept that an accident killing 13 people is not notable. It certainly would be without demur in Western Europe or North America, so I think WP:SYSTEMIC applies here. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:30, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. No indication of passing WP:NEVENT. Systemic bias is an essay and it is not an excuse to ignore our notability guidelines. PARAKANYAA (talk) 00:46, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Not all coverage may be in English. I would suggest searching for articles in Ukrainian. WhisperToMe (talk) 14:52, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I did, and I linked a Ukrainian source in my nomination statement as the closest I could find to significant coverage. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 02:57, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 21:46, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I don't see WP:LASTING. Did this make an impact on something notable? Many of these incidents do not need their own page. Ramos1990 (talk) 23:10, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, asilvering (talk) 05:43, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The number of deaths is not a criterion for notability. There is no lasting impact or coverage to meet WP:EVENT. LibStar (talk) 02:02, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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