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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Kj cheetham (talk) 12:28, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Vangelis Raptopoulos (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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I believe that tis article should be removed from Wikipedia. There is a lack of notability and his presence appears to be quite non-encyclopaedic. Most of the links have been taken from his own blog, whilst his presence in media is extremely limited. A few comment sections on a number of online sources is also not enough for notability. The person who created this added several links to a bunch of online pages, such as IMDB(!) - this person is just a novelist. Finally there is another mention of a "professorship"(what a claim!) at the Hellenic Open University. After some googling I only found that he is a teaching assistant - definitely not a professor. Glucken123 (talk) 15:18, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Leaning Keep: A cursory review of English and French-language sources reveals some scholarly attention to his work:

• Nigianni, Panagiota (2019-07-04). "The Politics of Subjectivity in Vangelis Raptopoulos's Urban Stories". The European Legacy. 24 (5): 537–552. doi:10.1080/10848770.2019.1583828. ISSN 1084-8770.
• Stamatiadou, Isavella (2016-01-03). "L'anthropophagie dans la littérature néo-hellénique: Représentations, pratiques, symbolismes". Cahiers balkaniques (in French) (Hors–série). doi:10.4000/ceb.6741. ISSN 0290-7402.
• Turner, Marcia (1997). "Review of The Cicadas'". Harvard Review (12): 149–150. ISSN 1077-2901.

I do not read Greek, but there appear to be additional sources in Greek at Raptopoulos' article in elwiki. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 22:58, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I do read Greek. The Wiki Article is full of links to his blog. Glucken123 (talk) 16:38, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Scholarly attention does not necessarily mean notability. As you can see the number of views or citations is close to 0. Glucken123 (talk) 16:38, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• comment @AleatoryPonderings and Glucken123: Most part of the Greek article on Raptopoulos was copy pasted from his personal blog and an autobiographical note at the Greek National Book Centre data base, plus a promotional listing of "praise". The Greek article has now been cleaned up by myself (see [1]; cf. oldid=8339489 and oldid=8340124). ǁǁǁ ǁ Chalk19 (talk) 00:44, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

PS. @Glucken123: BTW He definitely isn't a faculty member of the Hellenic Open University [2]; he is only an adjunct teaching assistant [3]. ǁǁǁ ǁ Chalk19 (talk) 01:07, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 16:25, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Greece-related deletion discussions. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 16:25, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:07, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per AleatoryPonderings as his work has been reviewed in reliable sources. But remove most of the EXTLINKS from the page. pburka (talk) 19:17, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Removed ! ǁǁǁ ǁ Chalk19 (talk) 00:14, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep: the coverage in reliable sources identified by AleatoryPonderings is sufficient to satisfy WP:BK #1. If there were issues of unencyclopaedic tone or exaggeration for promotional purposes these seem to have been surmounted. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 19:23, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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