Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johann Wotapek


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The result was keep. Article has been improved since nomination. (non-admin closure) ASTIG️🙃  (ICE-T • ICE CUBE) 14:50, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Johann Wotapek
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Wotapek was a non-medaling Olympian. He does not meet sports notability guidlines, and I cannot find any significant coverage sources that would lead to his passing GNG. There was a somewhat prominent official in Bohemia in the early 18th-centry name Johan Peter Wotapek von Ritterwald who is what I mainly get as the result of my searched for Johann Wotapek John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:09, 22 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep A seven-time national champion across two different disciplines, meeting WP:NATH.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 15:18, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople and Austria.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 22:14, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per NATH. No Great Shaker (talk) 22:28, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - Fails WP:SPORTBASIC: "Sports biographies must include at least one reference to a source providing significant coverage of the subject, excluding database sources". WP:NATH tells us that "significant coverage is likely to exist", however in this case none has been found. –dlthewave ☎ 01:04, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Olympics-related deletion discussions. No Great Shaker (talk) 10:05, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep I found this from the Austrian Athletics Federation (drop down of the 1931-45 history tab) and found this quote that appears to be from a 2002 book (pardon the incredibly rough Google translation): "Discus thrower Johann "Schani" Wotapek even made it to captain of the German national team at the suggestion of the German greats. Wotapek, according to Smekal never ever a National Socialist, had to defend himself against this fact after 1945. The doping recipe of the exceptional talent at the time was as follows: "Before every difficult competition, good red wine, three raw eggs, plus a packet of dextrose well stirred and drink 45 minutes before the throws. I've got the strength to stop there.""

It's possible that more coverage can be found using his nickname. Best, GPL93 (talk) 21:48, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * thanks very much for this - it was very helpful! Ingratis (talk) 02:51, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per Lugnuts and GPL93. Multiple national champion in two athletics disciplines. More sources in German could very likely be found. - Darwinek (talk) 14:38, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - he has a whole article in the Wiener Neueste Nachrichten of 20 April 1942 as Schani or Hans Wotapek (added), as well as many other references throughout the 1940s in the Austrian press. Ingratis (talk) 05:06, 26 March 2022 (UTC) the most significant of which I'll also add. Ingratis (talk) 06:22, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I've now added content with refs. It is slow to do because there are so many reports of his sporting fixtures to go through in the Austrian press between 1930 and 1950. Ingratis (talk) 02:51, 27 March 2022 (UTC)


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