Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chemnitz Tar Mummy


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The result was   merge to Saxon Museum of Industry . Can be nominated again if that article is not created reasonably soon.  Sandstein  06:24, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Chemnitz Tar Mummy

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I tried to independently verify that this object exists, but I found nothing in English-language reference sources. Can anyone please verify whether this article is a hoax? And Adoil Descended (talk) 10:05, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. I've found where it's mentioned on the website for the museum (who incidentally also appears to be the one who added the article in the first place), but I can't find anything to show that it's notable or genuine. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 10:47, 9 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment - this appears to be a genuine description of a museum exhibit (pictured in the article) along the lines of Otzi the snowman or the shrunken heads in the Pitt-Rivers museum. I think there's no doubt about its existence, nor that the museum is correct that the circumstance is highly curious; but unfortunately for English WP there is no evidence that anyone outside the museum ('cept for us, 'course) has ever written about it. We'll have to delete it unless some more evidence appears - I can't find any. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:56, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 14:51, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Have we considered seeing if there are any German-language sources that we could use? Daniel Case (talk) 15:03, 9 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep via merger into Saxon Museum of Industry (which I will create if the rate at which my list of things to do increases ever slows). The article has an external link to a Freie Presse article from 2003 (1), which looks genuine but predates the newspaper's online archive. I have yet to find other coverage of the mummified gasworks worker, but the museum itself is notable as demonstrated by the following selection of press coverage: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and is on the European Route of Industrial Heritage (11, and already listed in our article, as "Chemnitz Industrial Museum"). Frankly I'm hoping the article creator starts the article on the museum once they have registered a new username and got unblocked - they are blocked for editing under the museum's name, so presumably they know a lot about it. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:04, 9 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep via merger - per Yngvadottir. Sounds a very worthwhile project, which I'd be happy to support when I'm back at my desk. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:10, 9 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment - Anybody working on this? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
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