Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hablützel Ferris Wheel


 * 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   Delete
 * Although the comments here seem to indicate that this Ferris Wheel may perhaps be unusual, or even unique, no reliable sources of information have been located by the commenters. The concensus is therefore that this article be deleted, especially since mention of this one has been added to the Ferris wheel, which appears all that can be justified by the sourcing available. --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 01:56, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Hablützel Ferris Wheel

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Delete No evidence of notability. Tagged as unreferenced since November 2008. Prodded. Prod removed by Arbus Driver, who posted on the article's talk page "This is a large (60m diameter), transportable, Ferris wheel; clearly notable. The article is no longer an orphan and has several references. Removing Prod". Clearly the size and transportability have nothing to do with Wikipedia's notability criteria. Secondly, Arbus Driver had added "several references", but all but one of them have been removed as not being proper references for various reasons (one was a Wikipedia mirror; one was another unreliable source and in any case merely showed a photograph of the wheel, without confirming any of the statements about it in the article; and so on). The one remaining reference contains one brief mention of the fact that a family by the name of Hablützel operates a Ferris wheel, but confirms nothing else in the article. Web searches have produced passing mentions of the wheel, Wikipedia mirrors, a photograph with no accompanying text, etc etc, but no substantial coverage and no confirmation of the statements made in the article. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:08, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

60 m fixed wheels seem to be considered reasonably notable, so transportability suggests an added feature. This one qualifies for an image at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerstlauer. If you look under Hablützel Riesenrad there are rather more references.Opbeith (talk) 15:28, 4 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete Not notable on Google using either Ferris Wheel or Reisenrad; links mostly lead to Wikipedia mirrors or to the generic entry "Ferris Wheel". This one does sound interesting as being both large and transportable; maybe it could be mentioned in the article Ferris wheel even if it is judged to be not notable enough for its own article. --MelanieN (talk) 16:03, 4 February 2010 (UTC)MelanieN


 * Comments Yes, there are more hits for "Hablützel Riesenrad": thanks to Opbeith for pointing this out. I agree with MelanieN that most of them are not such as to establish notability under Wikipedia standards, but some of them are of some value. I think there is enough to justify a mention in the article Ferris wheel, as MelanieN suggests, and so I have added a few sentences there, with a reference. I think a mention there is as much as is justified by the available sources. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:41, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.