Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lake Van Monster
Non-trivial coverage in multiple reliable sources over many years demonstrate its notability wrt .It's been covered outside Turkey by, a print Japanese magazine whose crew included adventure writer Hideyuki {{scp|1=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2002/09/22/books/book-reviews/author-takes-a-trip-into-darkness/|2=Takano}} http://www.todayszaman.com/national_van-lake-monster-subject-of-japanese-magazine_36103.html & http://www.todayszaman.com/national_van-lake-monster-captured-on-film-by-japanese_36331.html, been subject of a USA TV "documentary" http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11363191.asp, has been written on by James Russell, the professor at Harvard https://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=WsNTVantK-qv7AbN6IOAAg&id=st0lAQAAMAAJ&dq=Lake+Van+Monster&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Lake+Van+Monster etc; the story of the 1889 "sighting" featured in British (Reynolds's&nbsp;Newspaper, London) & USA newspapers http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search/british-newspapers?date=1889-01-01&date_offsetdate=1889-12-31&keywords=lake%20van%20&_=1431557803886&page=0, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84036012/1889-11-27/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1889&index=6&date2=1889&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Lake+Van&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=Lake+Van&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1, and it's featured briefly in multiple English-language books like https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kiL1VqoTjpkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:D845oXVvbroC&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UMdTVdq-FrGu7Ab5hYKoAQ&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=van&f=false and https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pKANmnW44woC&pg=PT168&dq=Lake+Van+Monster&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-sZTVeXuOuup7Aajm4FA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Lake%20Van%20Monster&f=false.Within Turkey, it's been subject of a book http://www.worldcat.org/title/van-golu-canavar/oclc/41453623 that Worldcat shows (https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=pb%3AYYU%CC%88&qt=results_page, https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=pb%3AYu%CC%88zu%CC%88ncu%CC%88+Y%C4%B1l+U%CC%88niversitesi&qt=results_page, https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=pb%3AYu%CC%88zu%CC%88ncu%CC%88&qt=results_page) is published by a university press - {{abbr|Yüzüncü Yıl University|YYU|Yüzüncü Yıl University}}, as well as in various press sources, and used as the subject of a theatrically released film http://www.filmcuk.com/van-golu-canavari-2012-yerli-film.html & http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/13029/lake-van-monster-movie-a-guaranteed-turkey/. –Special:Contributions/146.199.151.33|146.199.151.33
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