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 delete‎. ✗plicit 14:44, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Leonard Borgzinner (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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This article has existed as a stub, more or less unchanged from its original form, since 2007. It cites a single-entry bibliography which includes only Universets varmedød og andre selvmord (apparently his only notable work), and a permanently dead link to a "tribute" about him written by Thomas Hylland Eriksen. The Norwegian Wikipedia article about him also includes a single other source, which is a database that lists the details of his birth and death.[1]

I checked Google Scholar([2]) to see if I could find any scholarly sources on Borgzinner, but only found two: one which gives him a passing mention in a journal article about another person;[3] and another which provides a single quote from the book Universets varmedød og andre selvmord in a broader article about the Norwegian art scene in the 1980s.[4] I also checked the Wikipedia articles that linked here to see if they had any other sources, but they entirely consisted of uncited entries in listacles and indexes.

As this article appears to fall short of the notability criteria for authors, lacking any significant coverage in reliable sources, I'm nominating this article for deletion. I was unable to find any good redirect or merger targets as an alternative to deletion. Grnrchst (talk) 14:13, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Science fiction and fantasy, Philosophy, Politics, and Norway. Grnrchst (talk) 14:13, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Delete There is content there, but overall I agree with the fact that there isn’t really any coverage and therefore this article should be deleted. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 14:42, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. I couldn't find anything in my searches for Borgzinner or Universets varmedød og andre selvmord either. Possible that it's deeper in undigitized Norwegian sources so ping me if so. czar 13:22, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: It seems quite speedy to go from tagging the article as a stub that needs further work on Feb. 17 (after several years of edit inactivity on the page) to moving forward with a deletion discussion on Feb. 22. - that said, I do see the very reasonable logic for deletion. As CZAR has raised, and given the medium/format that Borgzinner worked in, I think that there may be undigitized sources out there - and I wonder if we couldn't take more time to consider this possibility as we search for sources, and then revisit the deletion discussion.Boredintheevening (talk) 22:06, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: I managed to find an archived version of the dead link that wasn't a redirect, and have now added it into the article. The eulogy itself provides very little biographical information about Borgzinner, it's mostly about Hylland Eriksen's relationship with him. Short of a mountain of significant coverage in undigitised sources, I'm still not thinking he is a notable subject. --Grnrchst (talk) 16:53, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Grnrchst, since it looks like this will be deleted, would you add your new links to the Norwegian version of the article? -- asilvering (talk) 18:30, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Asilvering: Already did (diff). --Grnrchst (talk) 09:59, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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