Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claus Hinrich Casdorff


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) — ☮ JAaron95  Talk   10:14, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Claus Hinrich Casdorff

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Subject does not appear to meet the notability requirements for biographies per WP:BIO. The Orders of Merit mentioned in the article are handed out by the thousands per year by the German federal and state governments. Failing the appearance of multiple, independent, reliable, and especially non-trivial sources to support a notability claim, I propose this article be deleted. KDS 4444 Talk  17:08, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Speedy keep - passes WP:ANYBIO, WP:AUTHOR, and WP:JOURNALIST. The nominator failed to observe WP:BEFORE. Subject received (beside the 2 Orders of Merit) the Theodor Heuss Medal in 1990 for his journalistic career (handed out maximum 3 per year) a very significant award (see list of receivers here). He hosted the first political TV talk show in Germany, in 1965, and remained on air for decades, see the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first edition at WDR. His talk with controversial politicains made TV history. Web searches still produce a lot of coverage, mostly of people who refer to him and his TV show when comparing to present day TV. This nomination is like nominating Walter Cronkite for deletion. Kraxler (talk) 17:57, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ☮  JAaron95  Talk   15:06, 11 August 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep although the article should be noted as a stub as it says very little about the person. The obits in national papers and awards suffice to confer notability, but you'd never know that from the content of the article. I note that the obits have very little factual information that could be brought over to the article. There must be a different obit style in Germany than in the US where a major paper's obit is nearly enough to populate an entire biography. Surely there are German sources that say more about this person?! The German article says more, but has zero references, so it doesn't help. LaMona (talk) 17:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 00:52, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
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