Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dato Foland
The LGBT world is rather small, and in Russia its even smaller. Just because an average Joe here may not have heard of Foland does not make him insignificant. When Foland represented Russia in the 2009 contest, he received coverage from mainstream news publications and television (i.e. Interfax, NTV (Russia)|NTV), which continued in the LGBT realm well after the 2009 Mr Gay Europe  and 2010 Mr Gay World contests ended (i.e featuring on the cover of Kvir in 2014). Are these equivalents of the New York Times and Miss World? Certainly not, but they are significant in the smaller LGBT and regional context.Given Russia's draconian LGBT rights in Russia|state-sponsored repression of everything gay, it is difficult for such information to make its way out and then stay in circulation. If this article is given enough time, additional sources can be found, just as I did a few minutes ago. Foland meets at least . Every time an LGBT article is deleted on procedural meta:Immediatism|IMMEDIATISM and meta:Deletionism|DELETIONISM grounds, Vladimir Putin wins
— User:Damianmx, 01:30, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)