Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manvel Gasratian
He's a scholar who wrote in Russian pre-internet and pre-1991, so satisfying #C1 in the usual ways isn't going to happen. That said it does look like he made a significant impact in his field (Kurdish studies), even if sourcing is a pain in the arse. We have the one English-language source that describes him as "renowned". As far as Russian sources go, he has an entry in the ''Biographical Archive of the Soviet Union'' https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xaPjQX3A7A4C&q=Гасратян+Манвел+Арсенович, but I haven't been able to access it, and a very brief entry in this 2017 index of Turkish scholars https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HtmsCwAAQBAJ&q=Гасратян+Манвел+Арсенович. There is also a more detailed biography in this online encyclopaedia http://ru.hayazg.info/Гасратян_Манвел_Арсенович, but I don't know how reliable that is, and two blog posts describing a symposium organised in his memory at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences|Institute of Oriental Studies http://eurazia-ru.livejournal.com/34997.html and an obituary written about him in a Kurdish publication (which seems to have disappeared unfortunately) http://eurazia-ru.livejournal.com/33204.html. Again, they're not RSes, but they're suggestive. I think someone with better Russian and better access to offline sources like the BASU could make a decent biography out of this. There may well be additional sources available in Turkish or Kurdish. &ndash;&#8239
— User:Joe, 19:15, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)