Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hans-Dietrich Sander

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The result was delete. Sandstein 10:31, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hans-Dietrich Sander[edit]

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In 2017, the subject of the article died while his WP:PRODBLP was in the period it could be contested. (Has this ever happened before?) So, the {{prod}} was removed on procedural grounds. Three years later, he's no more notable than before, (and probably less,) but another PROD cannot be opened, so here we are. Psiĥedelisto (talk) 07:50, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Psiĥedelisto (talk) 07:50, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 08:32, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There are quite a lot of sources on his dewiki article. Is that a case of primary sources or refbombing? b uidhe 09:49, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, without prejudice against recreation if somebody can do better than this. I'm not fluent in German, so I'm not in a position to evaluate the German article for either the strength of his notability claim or the quality of its sources — but that's also true of the vast majority of users on the English Wikipedia, which means this article, in this form, is not telling anybody anything useful or informative about him. It really isn't helpful to just write a one-line sentence stating that an article topic existed, and then direct readers to another language Wikipedia in lieu of actually expanding the English article to longer than one sentence, because most readers of this article can't read the other one. If you want an article to exist about him in English, you need to put at least some semblance of actual effort into it — there's obviously no requirement that an English article would actually have to be a full literal word-for-word translation of the German one, but there is a requirement that an English article actually contain a notability claim in the first place, which this doesn't. If somebody with German skills can do better than this, then bring it on. Bearcat (talk) 15:47, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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