Deletion of Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov

Comment: per Piotrus. Delete in the sense that there are no reliable third party sources to make this |notable. But weak in the sense that we are uncertain about whether sources can be found, and someone could recreate or rescue this if they indeed find them
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: The character seems to get significant critical attention.  For example, see ''https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0148333114552772 “Balaam’s Ass”: Smerdyakov as a paradoxical redeemer in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov''.  Per policy , "''If editing can improve the page, this should be done rather than deleting the page
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:ATD)

Comment: The odds are the character  is notable, through what my quick BEFORE found was only plot summary. But the current article is a / mess that seems in need of a . I am willing to reconsider my vote if sources are found showing notability (reception, analysis, etc.) but it might be easier to retire this and restart the article from scratch
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Essays (WP:ESSAY||WP:OR||WP:TNT)