Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oswald Gudenlach


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:20, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Oswald Gudenlach

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A nonnotable medium-rank "Gestapo police offical". Some episodes in a couple books is WP:UNDUE to immortalize in wikipedia. there are hundreds of thou of such Nazi guys. Staszek Lem (talk) 16:36, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete. I cannot confirm that his name appears in any sources; they are so poor it may be even a hoax. Nothing in the article suggests notability. The only thing that could save it would be proper references showing his story got in-depth coverage in old newspapers, but I am not seeing anything. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:58, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment - article title appears to be a misspelling. This person is named "Oswald Gundelach" both in the article and in sources such as here (same life details so clearly the same person). I take no view on deletion as this person could be notable but sourcing available to me looks slender. Blythwood (talk) 14:24, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment: The article appears to be a translation of the de Wiki article: Oswald Gundelach. Perphaps he's notable for being a convicted war criminal? K.e.coffman (talk) 06:53, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment There appears to be a typo in the title, per K.e.coffmann's observation. While all but one of these sources is in German, and the mention in the English source is a passing one, he may just meet GNG, although we would need access to the German texts to confirm it. On that basis, we should probably give this article the benefit of the doubt at this stage. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:07, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Even German sources are extremely scarce. There were thousands of convicted SS and GEstapo people, and of course there is public record about them. Do we need a monuments to them all in wikipedia? Staszek Lem (talk) 23:21, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Looking again at the German sources, or what I can see of them, I think the sources (assuming they are reliable) are short of GNG. Absent anyone producing further sources, I think it should be deleted. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:22, 17 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. No evidence of notability. No sign of significant coverage in reliable sources.  B E C K Y S A Y L E S  10:16, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable for a stand alone article; based on the above. Thanks, gentlemen for the research into sources. Kierzek (talk) 12:59, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete, two-line mention in Gellately does not indicate notability. K.e.coffman (talk) 21:54, 17 June 2016 (UTC)


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