Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lords of Thannhausen


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The result was keep. seresin | wasn't he just...? 19:58, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Lords of Thannhausen

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Delete unsourced one-liner about a noble German family, no indication that this family is notable, whether this is some recognized peerage, a bunch of landowners, or a series of mayors, or what? Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:32, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Uhh, dude. You're an admin.  Can't you speedy delete this?  Cuz this article definitely fits the criteria of speedy delete.  Blizzard Beast  ''$ODIN' 21:38, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Strictly speaking, it does not meet the speedy criteria due to the fact that being a noble family asserts some sort of notability and the fact that sources have allegedly remained from 1100 which would suggest that there is something notable about a family whose records have (possibly) lasted nearly a thousand years. I'm not sure if sources exist and it is unlikely for there to be online sources, therefore I cannot judge on the notability of this article, as there may or may not be sources regarding this family in book form. (and my German is too poor to go through Google Books :) EJF (talk) 22:54, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * weak keep given that a related article Tannhausen says that the poet Tannhäuser (the basis for Wagner's opera)  is assumed to have en a member of the family, the article can probably be expanded from suitable sources. I removed the speedy.  DGG (talk) 22:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep The name Thannhausen/Tannhausen/Tannhäuser is of enormous notability in Germany.It seems to me that the user who created this article, Barbados66, is a new editor. We should not WP:BITE him; he is also probably a member of the family in question, but that should not ipso facto preclude him from making a useful contribution (WP:COI: Conflict of interest is not a reason to delete an article). His corresponding article on the German Wikipedia is more expansive, and one would hope this would soon be transferred to the English version. Unfortunately, our German Wiki-friends don't put quite the same rigourous standards on citing in articles as the EN-wikipedians do, so I fear that even a complete translation of the German article will not be quite satisfactory here. The originating editor (Barbados66) should be so told, but he should be given a chance to improve the article at least to the standard of its German counterpart. Michael Bednarek (talk) 02:54, 11 March 2008 (UTC)


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