Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johann Huber


 * 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. Please contact me if you would like to userfy this article for further research. Nakon 06:36, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Johann Huber

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Not notable. Champion of a ski club. No other awards or honors. GeorgeLouis (talk) 01:19, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Austria-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:55, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:55, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

i disagree, Being a pioneering mountain climber and extreme skier is noteworthy. These challenges are not done for awards and honors, they are tackled because of the challenge inherent to doing something noone else has done before. I call being the first to ski down a route that was before only known as a difficult ice climb for ascent is a story worth telling. There are several notable ascents via new routes as well, and unfortunately too little from this community has been preserved and documented. Many have perished in pursuit and it will take a dedicated effort to gather the info from the few that are still alive. If the article stays I will take on the task, if it goes, I won't. The latter would be wikipedia's loss IMHO Lobsteroh (talk) 10:01, 19 March 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 00:00, 24 March 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Delete for failing WP:BIO and WP:GNG. Wikipedia is not a memorial, and I couldn't find any sources. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:05, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 03:06, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * This article is not a 'memorial' and the citation is for an official publication. The article begins to document the role Hans Huber (and others, like Kurt Lapuch and Fritz Wintersteller), have played in alpine style mountain climbing and extreme skiing. Hans Huber's achievements are noteworthy in their own right, but they also represent seminal contributions towardfs the emergence of modern day extreme sports. It would be difficult to imagine X-Games without these extreme skiing pioneers, the projects they tackled, the equipment they had to invent to allow these feats, and how these efforts impacted their general life. Unfortunately, very little information about this has been preserved. This article serves as a meaningful beginning towards that goal. As a nucleus it invites us to explore this further with additional research, to chronicle the biggest achievements, and it will benefit from the contributions of others with knowledge of this history. Hans Huber offers an important perspective for the time when extreme sports emerged from extreme adventure. Human history would be just a little bit poorer if these contributions are allowed to be forgotten. Lobsteroh (talk) 07:39, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * If this person is truly notable - and please be aware that that word is Wikipedia jargon for our inclusion criteria, not its usual straightforward meaning of "worthy of notice" - then surely more sources than the single offline publication currently in the article can be found. —Cryptic 21:02, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I have scheduled time in several Salzburg archives in May and I will add the material Lobsteroh (talk) 22:48, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
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