Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ferdinand Friis Hintze

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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:16, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ferdinand Friis Hintze[edit]

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This subject does not meet WP:BASIC. From source searches, available secondary sources consist of passing mentions, and the article is reliant upon primary sources. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:53, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nosebagbear (talk) 18:33, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete contrary to the nominator, all the sources are actually secondary sources. They are sources created by scholars reflecting on the life and work of Hintze, with the exception of the World Cat entry. However generally the bios we have here do not add to the level of sourcing to show notability. A bio like we have of Hintze will be created for the subject of any primary source collection held by a university, but having such a collection does not per se make the subject notable. The entry on the LDS Church in Greece actually focuses on others more than Hintze, and it does not actually go so far as to say Hintze was the first to preach in Greece. It also seems to indicate only that he shared the gospel in a private setting with two individuals, so the use of the term "preach" may or may not be merited. In the context of what Hintze actually did in Greece, his role there was not enough to make him notable. This is very different than say Joseph William Billy Johnson in Ghana, who built up the Church in various ways over 50 years, or Rendell N. Mabey in Nigeria, who was along with his wife, and another couple, among the first to officially preach the gosple, although Anthony Obinna had been doing it for years. Building on both the work of Obinna and others like him, and the receptivity of others they met, especially in Enugu, during their year in Nigeria they baptized over 1700. Still, I didnt create an article on Mabey until I realized he had served in the Utah State House of Representatives and the Utah State Senate. If his work and later published writings on his work in Nigeria was not enough to make him clearly notable, Hintze "preaching" without a single baptism in Greece makes no impact. To put things in perspective there were more Latter-day Saints in Nigeria when Mabey left, than there have been in Greece in total over the last 150 years, at least if we only include those who took up residency in Greece.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:44, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The subject person being "the first missionary to preach in Greece" for the Mormons one would expect an abundance of sources about him, yet abundant the sources are certainly not. As a matter of fact, the page itself of the official Mormon branch of Greece dedicated to the history of the LDS in the country does not once refer to Hintze. We have no sources for notability. -The Gnome (talk) 15:38, 7 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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