- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was keep. Liz Read! Talk! 18:38, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
August curse
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Original theorie and conclusions WP:OR. No reliable source. Little-known and trivial facts are cited from year to year to consolidate the article, but there are no sources that link these events to the "August curse". We can find a few press articles on the Internet that mention this term, but most of them are based on Wikipedia and therefore not admissible. Deniev Dagun ( talk) 12:41, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 13:11, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
- Keep The theory may be superstitious and unfounded, but it clearly has a big enough presence in popular culture to be notable. Just because the articles mention the existence of the Wikipedia article does not mean that they are based on it; take this article from the New Yorker, for example. Also, some of the articles discussing the theory predate the page; take this article in the New York Times which was published in 2002; the Wikipedia page was created in 2009. Chagropango ( talk) 14:40, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
- Keep Any issues about WP:OR should be resolved on talk page. Accesscrawl ( talk) 13:42, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
- Keep According to the linked sources, this is a real superstition. That said, the page would benefit from editing that helps refocus it on the scope of that superstition and the role it plays in Russian culture. Jmozena ( talk) 19:46, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
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