Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vladimir Kronrod
it appears that the author has also made an autobiographical article at Yakov Kronrod. On the other hand, it seems that we ''should'' have an article on Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod (1921-1986), who as far as I can understand is Vladimir's father and Yakov's grandfather. On Google Books I also find mention of a Soviet economist, Iakov Abramovich Kronrod (1912-1984), who I suppose may be some kind of relative (see Oscar J Bandelin, ''Return to the Nep: The False Promise of Leninism and the Failure of Perestroika''). Yakov (if you are reading this), it is usually frowned upon to write articles about yourself or people or things very close to you - which is not to say that it never happens - but I am sure an article on your grandfather would be fine, as long as you reference sources available to others for verification purposes (such as obituaries in math journals, for instance, preferrably in English, but Russian sources are also fine if they add additional information or a different perspective). Forget your personal knowledge and connection for a while, and look at the task as if you were writing a biographical entry about any stranger who may deserve an article. If you want to emphasize his importance, do so only by quoting the evaluation by others. Read up on |neutral point of view, |citing sources on Wikipedia and |Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. Here is an article on ASK: http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:-OPxPZp4OhkJ:www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/wxg/Kronrod.ps+Aleksandr+Semenovich+Kronrod&hl=en. I suppose it may be identical to E M Landis , I M Yaglom, "About Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod", ''Russian mathematical surveys'', 2001, 56 (5), 993-1007
— User:Uppland, 08:39, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
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