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Hello, first of all, how does this article fails notability guidelines if this person is a colonel not just some kind of Russian pilot. Second, if its 100% copy paste then how come you say its subsequently edited? I don't see your logic here. Three, instead of accusing an editor of 100% copy paste, maybe you will be kind enough instead and just give me a link to an alternate source, otherwise I don't see anything of value. Another thing; according to WP:SOLDIER this person is notable. Hero of the Soviet Union is the highest honour in USSR, even English Wikipedia excepts it. Don't believe me? Look here.--Mishae (talk) 01:39, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've copied the above here from my talk-page. The article appears to have been copied wholesale from the site cited as a reference; it's been edited a bit since, but is still close-paraphrased. That source obviously fails WP:RS. A quick search (that is, I did not spend a load of time on this) did not turn up anything resembling a reliable source that mentions him; I don't mean that there are none, just that I didn't find one. As it stands, the article is (a) a copyvio, (b) without reliable sources and (c) on a non-notable subject. (b) and (c) can be fixed by finding reliable sources that state that he was a Hero; (a) can be fixed by deleting the present text, and rewriting it with information from those reliable sources. OK? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:51, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I don't know. Russian Wikipedia lists him as Hero: diff. Although since I am the only one in this discussion that knows Russian, I must also mention that the Russian source is site less. Another thing, I tried to fix the text though. If possible, can you do it for me? I don't know the difference between close-paraphrasing and not so.--Mishae (talk) 02:10, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As I tried to make clear above, the first step is to find some reliable sources that confirm his notability. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:12, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you will look carefully in the source it says next:

W tion of the Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and medal "Gold Star" Spartacus Iosifovich Makovsky awarded April 13, 1944.

I know its maybe a bad writing, but it says in the middle of the whole article. If you want, I can remove Hero of the Soviet Union thing, and living the other honours intact?--Mishae (talk) 18:15, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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