Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Werner G. Scharff


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The result was keep. RL0919 (talk) 00:24, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Werner G. Scharff

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Article about a businessperson that fails WP:ANYBIO. The sources provided are not satisfactory, the only reliable sources and publication about the subject is about his death, the rest are his name being listed on directories nothing more.

Also it was created by a blocked user. Lapablo (talk) 22:24, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep - The article needs to be cleaned up. But a search turned up numerous reliable sources, including newspaper articles and books, and not just business listings, as the nom stated, about the subject across several decades. Many of those sources are already in the article, including lengthy obituaries in The New York Times here and Los Angeles Times here. The subject, an established business owner, clothing designer and manufacturer, easily passes WP:GNG and WP:BASIC. -AuthorAuthor (talk) 03:56, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep notable per RS. The article has reliable sources and others also exist per WP:NEXIST Lightburst (talk) 19:41, 7 December 2019 (UTC)


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