Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Duke Friedrich of Württemberg

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The result was delete. Tone 09:47, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Duke Friedrich of Württemberg[edit]

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No serious claim to notability, member of former royal house which was deposed well before he was born, and may have been of limited importance even before it was deposed, was never even head of this house. PatGallacher (talk) 00:52, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 08:06, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 08:06, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - "Friedrich Philipp Carl Franz Maria Herzog von Württemberg ..... was the heir to the headship of the House of Württemberg." this should be pretty clear, that he for a period of time was titular head of this family and dynasty - unless there is an error in the informations in the article? (For that reason I don't realy understand the remark used in the nomination "was never even head of this house"??). Oleryhlolsson (talk) 08:53, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, now I see and understand - though I still think that a deceased "heir to the headship" is notable. Oleryhlolsson (talk) 08:56, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete very little actually about him on page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.110.217.186 (talk) 15:52, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. At what level of aristocracy and generational distance from title recognition would supporters not think an individual was encyclopedically notable? Will this guy's great-great-great-grandson also be worthy of a WP article just because of his ancestry? This page cites a ROUTINE obituary and an 1100-page genealogical directory published by, for, and about descendants of nobility. There is nothing to suggest he did anything notable enough for RS to take notice. JoelleJay (talk) 17:45, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete , no indication of notability. Smeat75 (talk) 21:19, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete holding a title that was abolished before you were born is not at all possible as a sign of notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:05, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: This article is a genealogical record and Wikipedia is WP:NOTGENEALOGY. The article does not meet WP:GNG and WP:BASIC. There are no reliable sources independent of the subject that cover anything about the subject directly and indepth. Being related to a public figure is not notable WP:INVALIDBIO WP:NOTINHERITED. Per WP:INDISCRIMINATE: "As explained in § Encyclopedic content above, merely being true, or even verifiable, does not automatically make something suitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia." // Timothy :: talk 01:46, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:BEFORE, WP:SIGCOV, WP:HEY. A search of both English and German sources online show lots of media/press coverage of his tragic death and aftermath. He was also a very wealthy, active business man. It took only a few minutes to find literally hundreds of cites, and about an hour to add several sources, which reveal significant coverage in multiple (some reliable and some less so) sources. I added a few of those cites and I think this now passes the Heymann standard. Bearian (talk) 20:30, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom --Devokewater (talk) 14:44, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, added sources are just a bunch of tabloid fluff, no reliable sources. He still clearly fails GNG. Devonian Wombat (talk) 07:45, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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