Talk:Horace Engdahl

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Hey, look, you can add info about what he did to get on the Swedish Academy (besides being willing to take down the minutes in 5 languages), and keep this gy from taking up space on VfD! Any takers? --Jerzy·t 15:38, 31 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The article could certainly do with some expansion, but it is a valid stub and can wait for the right person to come along and do the work. I don't believe that you have any actual intention to list it on VfD. Uppland 16:44, 31 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I too am hoping for the right person to come along & add notability to it, so i don't intend to VfD him without waiting a lot longer than this. And i don't think i'd do it w/o reading the Swedish Academy article, and probably spending 5 min on Google: IMO using VfD to get other people to do the due diligence (which IMO was missing when the stub was done) violates at least the spirit of WP:POINT. But IMO a stub that gets that long w/o any sign of notability makes n-n highly likely, and i wouldn't research it, before VfD, as long as i would before i save a typical stub that's my own idea.
For me, this is not just a stub, but a weird stub that worries me abt what else is wrong with it, that apparently kept anything abt what he's done from being at hand when the stub was writ.
--Jerzy·t 02:23, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Notability is established on the first line: he is one of the (only eighteen) members of the Swedish Academy. It's not enough for a good article, but enough for notability. In addition, he is the permanent secretary of the Academy, in other words its executive member and spokesperson. Uppland 20:01, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Is Horace Engdahl a "*real*" literary translator? ;-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.127.200.152 (talk) 23:18, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes he translated some theater plays by Heinrich von Kleist^[1]. A note on Swedish culture: Swedes are clumsy goofuses with a flair of high-culture, and errors such as Engdahl's are not too uncommon. He confused his personal taste for an objective reality. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 07:52, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]