Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Urpunkt/Otto Buchwitz

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: No conensus to delete. Blanking, also leave a talk message that they may want to start with a fresh version and use WP:RFPI. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:36, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

User:Urpunkt/Otto Buchwitz[edit]

This is a five-year-old stale draft copied from German encyclopedia but never completely translated. In 2009, the mainspace version of Otto Buchwitz was deleted (it was a single-line stub) following Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claus Peter Poppe's debate about unsourced German-translated stubs. Ricky81682 (talk) 20:38, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - this article is neither unreferenced nor a stub, so the cited AfD and the deletion of the previous iteration of this article seem completely irrelevant. All this article needs is translation, and it will be ready for mainspace. It is completely unproblematic and no benefit to the project is derived from deletion. Indeed, this page is almost certainly a net positive. Not to mention the lack of policy-based reasons for deletion. Even given the (incorrect but nonetheless applied by some) idea that drafts need to cover notable subjects, this subject is clearly notable. Honestly, I'm really confused by this nomination. A2soup (talk) 21:23, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete it is stale. If someone was inclined to translate the German page they would be foolish to start with a 5 year old copy. They should go grab the current version from German Wiki that is hopefully improved over the last 5 years. Legacypac (talk) 21:39, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why not let the person who decides to do the work decide how they want to do it? Why is this our decision? A2soup (talk) 23:38, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The references available at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Buchwitz overcome the reason for deletion at AfD. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:51, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Given that people like to have the creation credit for their work, see Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by article count, unless the editor wants to work on this, I highly doubt anyone else will want to do all the grunt work to give the credit back to someone who a half-decade ago, half-heartedly copied the German page over, especially it would likely have to be done again. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 22:39, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Some people are concerned about their edit counts. Others don't care. Yet others again are concerned that third parties receive due credit and that the statistics are accurate. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:56, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.