Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vivian Sørmeland
The sources have been shown to exist, and the fact that they are not in English is totally irrelevant. Many source are not available to all readers because they are only available in libraries in certain parts of the world, or for many other reasons, but we don't insist that direct quotations should be provided in these cases, so why do so when the reason for non-accessability by everyone is that they are not in English? The need to provide quotations with translations was a recent change to  which is severely damaging to English Wikipedia's mission as an Encyclopedia covering the whole world. English is simply the language in which the encyclopedia is written, not the language in which sources have to be
— User:Phil, 19:57, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:RSUE (Wikipedia:Verifiability)