Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dragos Mihalcea

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The result was Keep. (non-admin closure) –Davey2010^Talk 20:30, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dragos Mihalcea

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No independent sources attest notability. - Biruitorul ^Talk 15:58, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sweden-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:21, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep - per WP:GNG.--BabbaQ (talk) 16:15, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Sorry, but this is essentially a case of WP:JUSTAVOTE. Can you please demonstrate how the subject meets WP:GNG, in other words how he "has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject"? - Biruitorul ^Talk 17:00, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. He has been promoted to the rank of principal dancer in the Royal Swedish Ballet and has also been a principal dancer in the Dutch national Ballet for a couple of years. --Hegvald (talk) 00:39, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- You know, Hegvald, we do have policies like WP:V, WP:BASIC and WP:BLP. Yes, assuming what you say about the man is true, he's probably notable. But notability isn't inherent, or at least not for principal dancers. We do actually need some kind of evidence that the subject has received "significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources which are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject". Come up with such evidence, and I will even withdraw my nomination. But we can't simply ignore our own policy requirements. - Biruitorul ^Talk 03:35, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - I didn't think those facts would be in dispute, and I would actually argue that notability in the world of ballet isn't determined by wikipedians, but by the institutions that hire and promote dancers and put them on stage in leading roles in front of large audiences. As for other sources, I can find a number of reviews online in Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet (such as this one from as late as today, or this one from 2010, which calls him "purely brilliant in his jealousy-possessed murderer solo", an admittedly clumsy but literal translation). There are some online Romanian articles, such as this seemingly quite substantial one in Curierul Naţional, this one in a publication called avocatnet.ro, and two interviews in larevista.ro ([1], [2]) (the last two articles appear to be republished in several Romanian on-line sources). --Hegvald (talk) 07:56, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Principal dancer at a major ballet company. That's enough for me. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:34, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Convinced by Hegvald's links and arguments above. /FredrikT (talk) 16:04, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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