Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oliver Herbrich


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The result was no consensus. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 14:25, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Oliver Herbrich

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Non-notable. Does not appear to have won any truly significant film award and otherwise fails WP:GNG, as the only sources in the article are press releases; own website; and catalogues, and what I could find elsewhere is an interview or another one about a film he produced... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:58, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 01:16, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 01:17, 2 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Note The recent additions to the article by its creator are also similarly based on dubious sources (including the two I found above, and more listings and trivial coverage)... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:34, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

N.B.: New references enclosed on Sept 3rd 2021 are all live status and acknowledged. This concerns

Ref 1: Issued by Filmmuseum Düsseldorf – stating Herbrich's Vorlass (= Nachlass of a living person) has been taken to its collection in 2019

Ref 9: Issued by Hanns Seidel Foundation – information about film workshop on „Searching for El Dorado“ and „Bikini – mon amour“ held by Oliver Herbrich in the renowned institution in Dec 2019.

Ref 11: Issued by German newspaper Die Zeit – article on release history of „The Bavarian Al Capone“ in 1987

Ref 12: Issued by German newspaper Donaukurier – article on re-release of „The Bavaria Al Capone“ in Nov. 2019 (full page article)

Ref 13: Issued by German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung – Interview with Oliver Herbrich on „Earthbound“ from Aug 2018 (full page article)

Ref 16/17: issued by German Films – archive information (synopsis, film data, festivals) on „Priests of the Condemned“ and „Rules of the Road“ in English

Ref 19: Issued by German newspaper Münchner Merkur – article on Oliver Herbrich on start of retrospective form Nov 2017 (full page article)

Post scriptum: The English press releases (= references 2, 5, 8, 10 and 15) have been replaced by information from DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut und Filmmuseum Frankfurt providing archival material on German films in English language. The films referred to are 30 to 40 years old – only references from that time are printed newspaper articles and interviews in German language (i.e. pdf) – no recent web sources available from that pre internet era). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Henriette2018 (talk • contribs)
 * In order: ref 1 = database entry; ref 9 = pamphlet for a seminary which looks both like routine coverage and non-independent coverage (it's clear the Herbrich was involved, "Wir freuen uns, dass Oliver Herbrich mit uns über seine Filme diskutieren wird [...]" [We are happy that Oliver Herbrich will discuss his movies with us]); ref 11: can't access, but looks from the title more like a candidate for coverage of the movie than of it's director (and WP:NINHERITED), and might even be an interview like refs 12 and 13  - interview are not independent of the subject, so are not sufficient to meet WP:GNG; 16/17 are also database entries; and 19 is also an interview (as I've identified in my original post here). So basically none of the sources are sufficient to meet WP:GNG. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs)  14:31, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

PPS: More (non-interview) media coverage from German press on Herbrich and his work (1980 – 1995) is available as printed newspaper articles and could be submitted as pdfs. However, inclusion as download (via “filesur.com”) has been inhibited. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Henriette2018 (talk • contribs)
 * The reason for that is because hosting of content like that without the approval of the copyright holders is a copyright violation and Wikipedia can't link to copyright violations for obvious legal reasons. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 18:42, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  03:50, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Almost all refrences have been replaced - please see leastest version of the article. No more interviews or data base entries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Henriette2018 (talk • contribs)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 14:17, 16 September 2021 (UTC)


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