This article was nominated for deletion on 7 December 2009 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.
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The deletion procedure seems to have changed since I was last active on Wikipedia; I can't find a link to the articles-for-deletion talk page or votes-for-deletion or whatever it's called these days.
Anyway, I oppose the deletion. The article needs to cite more sources, but I know from my general knowledge of the Esperanto movement that Kim Henrikson is about as famous and notable within the world of Esperanto rock music as several filkers and filk groups we have articles on are within the world of filk. I'll ask around among people more knowledgeable about Esperanto music than I am and see what I can come up with in the way of more sources to cite. --Jim Henry (talk) 02:03, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I also oppose the deletion. Kim and his bands are known to most, if not all, of the 2 million Esperantists on the planet. It's easier to find an Esperantist who has never heard of Lydia Zamenhof than Esperanto Desperado, and so I don't think deletion is appropriate in this case. Kavaliro (talk) 04:18, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I oppose deletion as well. I have now more than doubled the size of the article in an attempt to demonstrate notability, as kindly requested by Black Kite and Dædalus, by citing the book by Arika Okrent, an independent linguist interested in constructed/planned languages. A discussion of Henrikson marks both her point of departure and the conclusion of her chapter on Esperanto. It appears that his musical contributions are highly significant to the international Esperanto culture at least. Objectivesea (talk) 12:26, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
