Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kaunas Chamber Theatre

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The result was Nomination withdrawn. I have thought further about this, and decided that whether the theatre does or does not technically satisfy the notability guidelines, the article is doing no harm, and will no doubt be of interest or use to some people, so there is no reason to delete it. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 19:06, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kaunas Chamber Theatre

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Small local theatre with no evidence of satisfying Wikipedia's notability standards. No sources at all except a link to the theatre's own web site. (A PROD was removed with the edit summary "This page cannot be deleted because it is about the theatre where I work.") The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:22, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I added some sources about this theatre, I hope it is enough to keep it on wikipedia at least while we are gathering updated information. By the way, this article was without sources when I started editing it. Less poetree (talk) 10:02, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first of those sources is just a mirrored copy of the Wikipedia article, and therefore of no value as a source. The next two are Google books links to two books, one of which has a single one-sentence mention of Stanislovas Rubinovas, the founder of the theatre, while the other has two mentions of him, but what we need to establish notability of the theatre is coverage of the theatre itself, not of people connected to it. One of the books also has just one brief mention of the "Kaunas Youth Chamber Theatre" (Kauno Kamerinis Jaunimo Teatras) which looks to me as though it maybe the same thing as the theatre treated in the Wikipedia article under a slightly different form of the name, but the other does not mention it at all, in either version of the name, in either the English or the Latvian version. The last source is the only one which is substantially concerned with this theatre, but that is merely an announcement that for political reasons the theatre would not be performing at a festival in Saint Petersburg in 2014. In short, none of the sources gives significant coverage of the theatre in a reliable source. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:19, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:30, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lithuania-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:30, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Most of the in-depth references are in Lithuanian, or as book snippets in English, but this EN book [1] starts discussing it at the bottom of p. 49 and ends at the top of p. 51. Here are some in-depth articles from mainstream LT media (its LT name is Kauno kamerinis teatras). This one, from Lietuvos rytas, discusses the original director's son's assumption of the role. [2]. (That's just one of the various articles about the theater that are aggregated at Lietuvos rytas at a subpage [3].) This article from Delfi.lt talks about the 2005 name change from Youth Theatre to Chamber Theatre. [4]. Here's another substantial Delfi one [5]. This one is shorter but still contributes to notability [6]. Then there are all the obits for its founder, Stanislovas Rubinovas, in various LT news articles. In Lietuvos rytas, current LT President Dalia Grybauskaitė singled out his directorship of the theater. [7] Also, I see that the LT version of this article cites the Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija. [8]. I can't see it and don't own the volume, but I'm not surprised that this theatre has an entry, given the other sources, and am willing to AGF on it. Novickas (talk) 18:17, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:36, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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