Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gjekë Marinaj
The author most-probably isn't famous, but he satisfies the minimum required for notability, at least from the credible sources available to us now. The Canadian scholar Robert Elsie is regarded as an author that fulfills , while his works on Albanian history, religion, literature etc are accepted in various wikipedia articles as reliable and credible sources. Here: http://www.albanianliterature.net/authors_modern1/marinaj.html he publishes a short but considerable bio on Gjekë Marinaj, which I have included in the reference list. I assume this site http://www.locuspoint.org is acceptable as well, and I have excerpted this editor's note http://www.locuspoint.org/volume1/dallas/index.html, where Marinaj is mentioned in the forefront as well as this short bio http://www.locuspoint.org/volume1/dallas/marinaj.html in the end. The ''Pjetër Arbnori Award'' is a new national (from Albania, but not intended only for Albanians) award, so difficult to find online information or good coverage in English reliable sources. Anyway, the same prize in 2007 was awarded to the poet and Nobel nominee Frederick Turner (poet)|Frederick Turner, (there's the article from Gazeta Shqip here: http://www.gazeta-shqip.com/kulture/d13cb3ba033b1be500d69079e775c30f.html in Albanian though) a book of whom is translated from Marinaj into Albanian. He's recipient of another international award in literature and for notability, he has also been the Society of Albanian-American Writers' president http://www.albanianliterature.net/authors_modern1/marinaj.html http://stamford.patch.com/articles/albanian-americans-unite-through-love-of-the-written-word. The largest work on depuffing had already been done by the time I started editing the article, nevertheless I have added several inline citations that help the article. I strongly recommend to reconsider the deletion of this figure since it is notable and by now there are credible sources that back up a large part of info on it. With a little more work it can stand pretty well. I hope user ''Tony Zaknic'' can help with his sources as well. With due respect
— User:Empathictrust, 00:14, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NPOV (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)