Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Willy Schäfer (actor)

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The result was delete. No arguments to keep. Kevin (talk) 06:32, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Willy Schäfer (actor)[edit]

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Unsourced BLP. Currently references no reliable sources in order to demonstrate the actor passes WP:ENTERTAINER Gazi moff 13:35, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reserving my opinion for the moment. Search engine users will struggle with the fact that there are various Willy Schäfers, mostly with German-language sources, and should bear in mind that the alternative spelling "Willy Schaefer" is perfectly valid in German. It's also unclear if "Willy" is an abbreviation for, say, "Wilhelm".
The German Wikipedia version (here) is about Willy Schäfer the actor and not Willy Schäfer the olympic handballer, which is usually a good sign for notability, and I see it's been edited by a number of users and flagged revisions have been approved. But de.wiki has a different culture when it comes to sources. (Basically, on en.wiki you can write it if there's a reliable source, whereas on de.wiki you can write it if other editors think it's true and encyclopaedic.)
What this article needs, to be kept on en.wiki, is a reliable source and I haven't found one.—S Marshall ^Talk/_Cont 17:01, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 02:38, 5 November 2009 (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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.