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The result was keep. Consensus is keep, especially after citation work done by Sam Sailor. (
non-admin closure)
Onel5969TT me 12:53, 19 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Article with only one reference, and that from a page in a book written in German. I find nothing that establishes notability per Wikipedia guidelines. Article subject appears to fail
WP:GNG. -- WV ● ✉✓ 19:12, 11 November 2015 (UTC)reply
The German Wikipedia article is better sourced.
Shawn in Montreal (
talk) 21:49, 11 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep major figure in early modern German literature. English sources usually use his Latin name.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 18:06, 12 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. While I am not particularly convinced that the subject was a major figure in early modern German literature, he was certainly important enough to have a 250-page book written in the early 20th century on his life and work (this as a whole seems to be the one reference currently in the article, not just a page from it). The fact that the book was written in German does not damage its reliability. And while we generally require more than one reference to establish notability, there are definitely others - even excepting
this one, which mainly mentions the subject to distinguish him from three other people with very similar names from much the same period. He is, for instance, mentioned or quoted repeatedly in
this biography of
Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau and
this book on German baroque rhetoric, and to lesser but still significant degrees
here and
here.
PWilkinson (
talk) 22:20, 16 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep Having a biography published on the subject that is independent of the subject and not just a book of memorial is enough to make them notable.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 05:51, 17 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete as there's actually not much at first but a historical subject such as this will almost certainly have some archived information thus needed familiar attention.
SwisterTwistertalk 08:46, 17 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. Easily sourced, I have added a handful of {{Cite book}}s and there's plenty more to pick from.
Sam SailorTalk! 11:00, 19 November 2015 (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
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.
The result was keep. Consensus is keep, especially after citation work done by Sam Sailor. (
non-admin closure)
Onel5969TT me 12:53, 19 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Article with only one reference, and that from a page in a book written in German. I find nothing that establishes notability per Wikipedia guidelines. Article subject appears to fail
WP:GNG. -- WV ● ✉✓ 19:12, 11 November 2015 (UTC)reply
The German Wikipedia article is better sourced.
Shawn in Montreal (
talk) 21:49, 11 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep major figure in early modern German literature. English sources usually use his Latin name.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 18:06, 12 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. While I am not particularly convinced that the subject was a major figure in early modern German literature, he was certainly important enough to have a 250-page book written in the early 20th century on his life and work (this as a whole seems to be the one reference currently in the article, not just a page from it). The fact that the book was written in German does not damage its reliability. And while we generally require more than one reference to establish notability, there are definitely others - even excepting
this one, which mainly mentions the subject to distinguish him from three other people with very similar names from much the same period. He is, for instance, mentioned or quoted repeatedly in
this biography of
Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau and
this book on German baroque rhetoric, and to lesser but still significant degrees
here and
here.
PWilkinson (
talk) 22:20, 16 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep Having a biography published on the subject that is independent of the subject and not just a book of memorial is enough to make them notable.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 05:51, 17 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete as there's actually not much at first but a historical subject such as this will almost certainly have some archived information thus needed familiar attention.
SwisterTwistertalk 08:46, 17 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. Easily sourced, I have added a handful of {{Cite book}}s and there's plenty more to pick from.
Sam SailorTalk! 11:00, 19 November 2015 (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
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