Talk:Siegfried Simsch/Archive 1

Notability
Does not meet WP:SOLDIER & sig RS coverage not found: link, just passing mentions. Did not hold a significant command.

No de.wiki article. Please also see a note at MilHist Talk Archives for background behind the redirect. In summary, per the outcome of the discussion at Notability:People on notability of Knight's Cross recipients: permalink, certain recipients were deemed non notable and WP:SOLDIER has been modified accordingly: diff. The articles of these recipients are being redirected to alphabetical lists. K.e.coffman (talk) 05:11, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Notable due to his status as a Flying ace with a high claimed kills counts. As you can see in List of World War II flying aces - flyers with a much smaller kill count have articles - with the notability being their kill count and nothing else. Being an aerial ace (with a significant count for a particular conflict - 5 would be borderline for WWII, but would confer significance in any other conflict - mid-double digits and up for WWII is clearly significant). notable per SOLDIER: " Played an important role in a significant military event such as a major battle or campaign" - kill counts of these magnitude are a significant material and personnel (aviation - expensive to train) advantage. Soviets were competitive in the air from the end of 1942 and onward - and in event taking out a regiment sized enemy force - Aviation regiment (Soviet Union) single handed is significant regardless of opposition quality.Icewhiz (talk) 10:40, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

RfC on flying aces
A recent MilHist RfC, which aimed to modify SOLDIER to cover those with ace status, concluded w/o arriving at a consensus that flying aces should be presumed to be notable. Here's the RfC in question: RfC on notability of flying aces. I thus restored the redirect. Please let me know if there are any concerns. K.e.coffman (talk) 21:05, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Take this one to an AfD. This is an ace with 54 kills. Maybe do the afd as a group on german aces with approx. same kill count range, and sourcing/notability beyond being an ace.Icewhiz (talk) 04:09, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Really no point, as per K.e.coffmann. In short, WP:REDIRECTSARECHEAP. Nördic   Nightfury  14:57, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect, in this case, is tantamount to deleting this article. I suspect this fighter ace, with 54 kills, will pass AfD - or at least there won't be a consensus to delete. The featured article today - Roy Phillipps is an ace with 15 kills. The correct course of action here - is AfD. A similar ace - Articles for deletion/Hugo Broch was closed as no consensus recently.Icewhiz (talk) 15:08, 12 June 2017 (UTC)