Talk:Vanya Milanova

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Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... Vanya Milanova has made a very large impact on the world of violin playing, having been one of the first women to record the Paganini caprices in 1985, which were primarily only played by male violinists up until this stage, she was a breakthrough artist in a very male field. She has been an influential figure on violin playing and as such has been mentioned in Strad Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, Guardian etc also has been awarded the highly acclaimed Freedom of the City Award in Bulgaria, has played in the Royal Albert Hall for the Edward Boyle Memorial Concert. I have these verifiable via hard copies of original documents in my house through my own primary research and collections, however as these were before the onset of the internet some of these reliable articles cannot be cited as online sources. Please take this into consideration.

Furthermore, she is cited already on Wikipedia in several places, such as in the List of Female Violinists page and as a notable mention under Yfrah Neaman OBE page. She is a recording artist in Apple Itunes and Amazon where she has sold many CD's which evidences her popularity as a recording figure and public violin artist.

If you are still uncertain as to the importance or impact of this amazing Violin soloist, please could you write in detail how I may get this important information across in Wikipedia or send me a version of this article with exact suggestions as to how it should be written.

Thanking you in advance for your assistance. --Violin 2015 (talk) 17:37, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The significant placings in the Tschaikovsky & Paganini international competitions should be enough to meet the notability threshold. She does not appear to have an entry in Grove's but is mentioned in its article on Bulgaria. Reviews of her concerts and recordings in the music press would be very useful. There is another Belgian violinist of the same surname, variously Stoïka or Stoyka, born 1945[1] -- is she a relative? Espresso Addict (talk) 03:55, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sources removed from article

"South Bank debut of the brilliant Bulgarian violinist VANYA MILANOVA MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO". The Times Archive / The Times and The Sunday Times. 16 January 1982. Retrieved 4 January 2021. -- link provided does not appear to be to review?
"Bax Evasion" (PDF). Leeds Student Independent Newspaper. 29 October 1993.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) -- student publication, not reliable and certainly not enough to support the contested statement
Vanya, Milanova (January 1982). "Profile of Vanya Milanova". The Strad Magazine. 92 – via https://www.thestrad.com/. {{cite journal}}: External link in |via= (help) -- needs an indept editor to review the content