Talk:Oleg Babak

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Possible neutral point of view issues in this article, see Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view. It does not read like a neutral description of the person. Mtpaley (talk) 20:36, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Do NOT delete this article, the case made is flawed & editor retired

This article has been nominated twice by Arthur Rubin for deletion but I disagree with his assesment based on a lack of understanding of the former USSR, of which I reside in. Also this user is retired (hostile environment) from wikipedia so I think his input regarding this article is is now irrelevant/stale. I will make the case based on his last reasons for deletion. "Needs help from an uninvolved Russian-speaking editor. All sources are in the Russian (or possibly Ukrainian) language. Does being a Hero of the Soviet Union (if that is accurate) automatically make a person notable? Because that's all there is. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 04:48, 2 May 2019 (UTC)"

I am an uninvolved Russian speaker (in Ukraine) so that's the first requirement met. Now Arthur makes the relevant point that being a hero of the USSR is not in itself exceptional, there were almost 13,000 awarded, BUT the article in question, this person's case IS excceptional as he was the 2nd last person to ever recieve this now defunct award, but more importantly, He was the last to die in the line of duty, the last recceiver of the Hero of the USSR award is still alive but technically, he is not the last actual Soviet-era recipient. The last time the Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded was on January 16, 1992 to Captain 3rd Rank Leonid Solodkov, but by that time the USSR had not existed as a state for 22 days. I think that the aforementioned plus respect for the life of this young man now deceased is a good case to keep the article. I can help improve it but I don't want to be wasting my efforts if it won't be saved from deletion. Tito Jugoslavchenko (talk) 03:09, 20 July 2020 (UTC)