Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elwedritsche


 * 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. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:12, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Elwedritsche

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This article contains no references to establish notability, this lack has been noted on the talk page and through a reference request template for some time, and I can find no supporting references in a web search. It seems likely that the topic is not notable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Locke9k (talk • contribs) 05:19, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - I just added two citations to the article to verify and show notability. There are dozens of books in a Gbook search under both names of this creature: Elwedritsche and Elwetritsche. There are also hits in Gscholar for both spellings of the term. This book in German starts off a chapter with "Elwetrittchologie - Das Wissen um die geheimnisvollen Fabelwesen", which, loosely translated would be "Elwetritschology - The study of the mythical creature".  Dewiki has a much more extensive article on this subject than we do, and I must add that their inclusion criteria are somewhat stricter than Enwiki's are. Overall, this easily meets notability guidelines. — LinguistAtLarge • Talk  05:19, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions.  -- — LinguistAtLarge • Talk  05:22, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions.  -- — LinguistAtLarge • Talk  05:24, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep - per above added templates. It always gets me when articles get nominated for deletion as non-notable when one (interwiki) click away there is a host of sources. Fix it don't delete it. Agathoclea (talk) 07:44, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. The searches linked by LinguistAtLarge (even ignoring the Wikipedia mirrors published by Icon Group International) show plenty of notability. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:35, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Sources are available to establish notability. Hopefully somebody will translate the article from the  German Wikipedia. -- J mundo 19:50, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


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