Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henry Sternweiler


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The result was   delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:48, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Henry Sternweiler

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Not entirely sure what he did merits an article. How common was an act like that which he performed? Alex (talk) 20:11, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 21:19, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
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 * Comment Delete - according to the article Sternweiler, a US Army officer, received the Federal Cross of Merit (a German award, apparently the highest civilian award AGF) for saving some documents at the end of the Second World War. AFAIK this is a fairly common award (according to the wiki article at least there are between 3,000 and 5,200 awards given out every year across all classes.) As such this in itself is probably not notable per WP:MILMOS/N, although I imagine it would have been fairly rare for an American to receive one. The other obvious issue is the current lack of depth in the articles referencing. Although currently all major points have a citation they all use the same website (an obituary from Clevland.com). This may indicate a lack of significant independent coverage in reliable sources as well and further any claim that the subject is not notable. That said I would be interested to see if other editors are able to dig up some references before I pass judgement. Anotherclown (talk) 01:53, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * After doing a search I cannot find much coverage of this guy. There appears to be a couple of passing mentions of his name in a few foreign language publications and there are two news articles about his award and an obituary. This doesn't seem like significant coverage and indeed does not provide enough information to write a biography. Perhaps some of this infomation could be merged into another article but IMO there isn't sufficient notability for an article of its own. Changing to delete. Anotherclown (talk) 22:34, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: as is, the article fails WP:MILPEOPLE and WP:GNG. I don't think that there is any sufficient claim to notability here, and the single source really isn't enough if there were.  bahamut0013  words deeds 12:32, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I have added a few links. There is an article about the military records on wikipedia, actually - linked it. The department for the records still exists and is online with english sites - linked them too.--Ben Ben (talk) 19:04, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Although Im glad he did what he did to save the records there doesn't seem to be enough references available to really say anything about him or the act. It just doesn't seem noteworthy enough for an article --Kumioko (talk) 15:30, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
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