Talk:Bernhard Weiß (musician)

=Deletion= This age contained no text except a redirect. The problem is when you click on Bernhard Weiß you arrive at a disambig page. When you then click on this page you were redirected to the Axxis page which contains a link Bernhard Weiß. To avoid this circular linking, I propose that this page be deleted until such time as the subject is considered notable. I suspect some sort of own-trumpet-blowing has been going on here. In particular because the band member list has no link for Bernhard Weiß, but he is in the infobox. Bernhard Weiß is apparently also responsible for the Axxis merchandising. From Denic:

Domain holder -The domain holder is DENIC's contractual partner and hence holds the material rights to the domain.

-Domain holder: AXXIS-Merchandising -Address: Bernhard Weiss -Preussenstr. 98 -Postal code: 44532 -City: Lünen -Country: DE

TINY MARK  11:59, 9 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I restored the former blanked content, because I think the discussion should be about its notability, substance, reliable-sourcing, conflict-of-interest, merger, etc., rather than about an empty page with a bare redirect. If the page is empty, deletion discussions are rather trivial, so maybe the talk should be about whether what was there before should stand alone as a Wikipedia article.


 * (By the way, the only reason I stumbled into this was from investigating a caption for a former illustration at Ordnungspolizei; Bernhard Weiß (police executive) was Vice President of the Berlin police before the Nazis took power.)—— Shakescene (talk) 20:06, 9 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I deleted the restored text again. Bernhard Weiß apparently failed WP:Music-notability (see this edit by User:Ironholds). Therefore a missing page would be preferable to an empty one, and a redirect is inacceptable because the Bernhard Weiß link on the Axxis page should be in red.
 * It should also be noted that this person has no article on the German Wikipedia. The fact that he, as a German artist residing in Germany, is not notable enough for that kind of voids any reasoning for notability on this Wikipedia.
 * I think this is a case of an own-interest/self-promotion article. Someone also insists on repeatedly inserting his band as the "most famous band from Dortmund", which is what pricked up my ears in the firstplace. TINY  MARK  06:16, 10 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I have removed the PROD and restored the redirect, on procedural grounds. WP:PROD is intended for articles, not redirects.  This page was a redirect for well over a year before the recent edits.  That more than puts it under Redirect classification for handling, not Article classification.  And the original PRODer above is indeed making complaints about the redirect, not the older article.  If the redirect is the problem, then WP:PROD is an inappropriate deletion mechanism.  WP:RFD is the proper location for deletion discussions on redirects. - TexasAndroid (talk) 16:18, 10 January 2011 (UTC)