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The result was keep. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 10:00, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Josef Skružný (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

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Subject fails WP:GNG. No reliable sources found. Requesting speedy delete. Sreeram Dilak (talk) 06:11, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Czech Republic-related deletion discussions. Sreeram Dilak (talk) 06:11, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment @Sreeram Dilak:, I see you're a new user, so I wanted to give a friendly reminder that WP:BEFORE should be followed before nominating an article for deletion - including a simple google books search of the subject's name. I found quite a few hits on Google books of his name, so I can't imagine that "No reliable sources found" could be true with a WP:BEFORE. Hope this helps - I'll follow up with some of the sources below in a bit. - Whisperjanes (talk) 18:07, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - I've found a lot of sources under his name and pseudonyms, as well as alternate spellings of his name (like Josefa Skružného, J. Skružného, etc), including coverage of his books and screenplays in the Czech press. If other editors don't want to go through the sources I picked below (which may not show up, since a lot of them are just Google's snippet view), then just Google Book search his name or one of the alternative names.
  Either way, he seems to have enough coverage to pass WP:GNG, or at least WP:AUTHOR. Here's some of the sources I found:
  • Coverage of him and his work[1]
  • There's coverage of some of his plays, such as "Podvodnice" (1923)[2], and others[3]
  • A comedy film of his received coverage[4]
  • This source seems to call him a "well-known" humorist[5]
  • This source says he was a part of a circle of authors for "Folk theater" (Czech: "Lidové divadlo")[6]
  • Some of Svatopluk Innemann's works were based on the ideas/themes in Skružný's works (I don't know if this translation means he filmed some of Skružný's screenplays, or was inspired by them?)[7]
  • One of his novels gained "widespread popularity" (Translated from the snippet "Tento románek Josefa Skružného , jemuž dopomohl k široké popularitě okruh čtenářů autorem redigovaných „ Humoristických listů “ , byl zfilmován režisérem ...")[8]
  • A popular comedy book of his was made into a film[9]
  • He was screenwriter for the film Lásky Kačenky Strnadové[10]
    - Whisperjanes (talk) 20:26, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, and echo that sometimes it takes work to find sources about 19th century subjects in another language. Thankfully whisperjanes has now done that work. This is an WP:NEXIST pass, and that should have been clear through due diligence WP:BEFORE nominating. - Astrophobe (talk) 17:36, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: Per the large number of sources supplied by Whisperjanes. Curbon7 (talk) 18:55, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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