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Miniboox

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I found nothing in a search of sources (archive.org, google books, proquest, google) except for 1 or 2 company listings (which is very few). The first book used as a source does not actually mention the company, as far as I can tell (nothing in a text search or their indexes). The second source I could not check but given it was added by the person who added the first one I doubt it does either (and seems to predate the company?). Does not pass GNG or NCORP. PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:58, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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1970 Fahrdorf massacre

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This article is mainly supported by 2 magazines/local sources, and doing a search on google for news shows no other result. An alternative to deletion would be to merge back with the Fahrdorf article. shane (talk to me if you want!) 22:11, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - This type of incident could have gained more coverage, but unfortunately it did not. Segaton (talk) 04:43, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge there appears to be at least 3 pages on this in a book from 5 years later [1]. This is sigcov and far enough away from the event that it contributes to notability. However, as this is the only source I could find, I do not think it is enough for standalone notability. I would say if there are not more sources, merge to the town as that is a very small town and the incident is one of the most notable things that has happened there. PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:49, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Willms Buhse

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I came across this page after seeing it in the portfolio of a paid editing company. Aside from the promotional list of articles he has published, I do not see enough for him to be considered notable. 🄻 🄰 13:21, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: An article on the subject was deleted from the German Wikipedia in January 2023: discussion link. AllyD (talk) 12:44, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: In fairness, the original article author was clear about working at the subject's company and wrote neutrally; subsequent edits by others updated the bibliography with articles on the company site and elsewhere, so, despite some business secret-sauce buzzwords, this is effectively a maintained CV. However, while the publications confirm the subject as a person going about their business, I don't see these or the Inclusion of "Willms Buhse, Head of Products and Marketing, Coremedia" on a Mobile Entertainment site's Top 50 Exec list as evidence demonstrating attained biographical notability here. AllyD (talk) 17:16, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alice Sommerlath

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Sommerlath was not a public figure and I see no evidence that she has attracted enough media attention to be considered notable by our standards. Surtsicna (talk) 21:31, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete not notable, as I already questioned in the talk page in August 2024. There has albeit been speculation that she descends from native Brazilian royalty, way back when, but nothing reliable has ever been presented on that. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 21:50, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Redirect to Queen Silvia of Sweden#Childhood and parentage – As WP:ATD. Svartner (talk) 08:51, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect - only three sources, she's barely notable. Bearian (talk) 17:22, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ekkehard of Huysburg

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Unsourced since 2006. I was unable to verify this content. Fails WP:GNG.4meter4 (talk) 15:09, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: I am not sure, but at least one of the sources on the German article for this guy seems sourced to an RS academic book. I don't speak German and don't have those sources in front of me, but maybe someone who can investigate further can find something there. ~ Pbritti (talk) 18:32, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. It's too bad these are offline. It's hard to assess without seeing the sources and knowing the extent of the coverage in them and what they say. Our article looks to be a translation of the German wiki page. If someone on the English wiki hasn't actually confirmed that veracity of the German article (ie looked at sources covering the topic) I don't think we can keep it.4meter4 (talk) 19:06, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think WP:AGF means we can translate articles from other Wikipedias without verifying the sources ourselves. If the article is a translation, we could just port the citations over. Srnec (talk) 02:21, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I found a mention in English and in French. Unfortunately, I could not find anything substantial about him in a language I can readily read, only in German. The German WP article satisfies me that we should not delete. Srnec (talk) 02:21, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hermann Erben

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To the extent this person has any notability at all, it is that he was a friend of Errol Flynn, and even that tenuous claim to notability only exists due to allegations in a 1980 biography by Charles Higham that Flynn was a Nazi spy. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Flynn#Charles_Higham_biography Higham is not even mentioned in this article, which is otherwise a hodgepodge of unsourced claims concerning the subject.

Merger to Errol Flynn is not warranted as the Flynn article already has more than enough detail on that subject matter. Coretheapple (talk) 16:47, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Levis Prince Asanji

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Does not meet GNG Uncle Bash007 (talk) 01:20, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Draftify – WP:TOOSOON. Svartner (talk) 12:35, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Drafify - not currently notable, but might be in future. Giant Snowman 20:34, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Drafify - This is a good compromise, the subject does not meet WP:GNG yet but may do so as a promising up-and-coming footballer. TheInevitables (talk) 01:33, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Die Kommissarin

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Article unsourced since creation in 2006. I cannot find any sources other than IMDB-like entries, some of which are copy pastes of sections of this article. Fails notability. Lenny Marks (talk) 16:57, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - No sources found except for IMDB. Kvinnen (talk) 17:21, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to Hannelore Elsner would be a good alternative to deletion. Sources do seem thin; the German Wikipedia does have a reference to a very short independent article commiserating the end of the series [2] but I'm not finding much else. Elsner and other female police leads were celebrated in a major museum exhibition, but it's not specific to this series.[3]. Unfortunately series like this sometimes don't generate the coverage you'd think; I do find it hard to imagine that something not dissimilar to "The Bill" could exist so long and vanish with so little trace. Elemimele (talk) 17:30, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Berlin Promotion Agency

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German name is "Berlin Promotion Agency" but no notability-establishing google results in German or English. All of the article's sources are not independent. Does not meet WP:NORG monkey_smashing^keyboards (talk) 22:24, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. The article mostly repeats information from the company itself or its marketing materials. I don’t see independent reliable sources giving coverage of the agency.--Killviconiborki (talk) 14:21, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The article does not have independent coverage at all. One is even a LinkedIn reference. Kvinnen (talk) 17:25, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1864)

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He lived, he died. No evidence of notability or any WP:SIGCOV beyond the sheer fact that he lived and died. His whole life is effectively summed up in his parent's articles. Could be redirected to the appropriate section of Descendants of Queen Victoria so as to avoid arbitrarily selecting one of his parents articles as the appropriate target. estar8806 (talk) ★ 00:10, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect per nom. Not suitable for standalone article. --SaTnamZIN (talk) 02:23, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. He may barely be notable, but he is still notable as a member of a royal family with according sufficient coverage. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 08:16, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep I have to agree with The Bushranger there. While I'm personally not a huge fan of these articles about minor short lived members of royal families, he just about has enough significant coverage for the article. There's more coverage in German sources as well. LightlySeared (talk) 13:09, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

German Crown Jewels

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Unsourced. May be WP:OR as the German wikipedia doesn't cover this... We do have another article at Crown Jewels of Württemberg which might be the same topic? Either way this needs looking into for verifiability and notability. Possibly fails WP:GNG.4meter4 (talk) 00:18, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Seems synthesized to me/original research. "Germany" as a single unified state came and went for most of a millenia working up to the 1800s. One could potentially make a list page about "Crown Jewels of Germanic States from ??? to ???" but this article is not that. Anonrfjwhuikdzz (talk) 04:17, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as a made up non-topic. It is a plausible search term but there is already a Template:German Crown Jewels navbox for that topic. Can we redirect to a navbox? If so I’d suggest that. Mccapra (talk) 08:37, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Redirect to Crown jewels#Germany, which is better developed and better informed. Celia Homeford (talk) 10:30, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's predominantly not referenced so I wouldn't call it "better". That said, it conceptually works as a redirect. I'm not sure that content at that page is any more accurate (but it could be) due to lack of sources.4meter4 (talk) 16:11, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect per Celia Homeford; at the time most of these crown jewels appeared, "Germany" wasn't a single thing that would have crown jewels, so the only sense in having a "German Crown Jewels" article is as a list of crown jewels that a modern reader would find associated with the area we now call Germany. That's a perfectly valid list. The redirect-target is a slightly odd case because it's more than a navigational list (it has a lot of text as Celia noted), but less than a standalone list (sources not given). But since every paragraph with any serious text also has a link to a corresponding main article, and each main article that I checked has sourcing, this is no more unreferenced than a typical "Lead" section. The sources are only one click away, which shouldn't be beyond the wit of an average reader to find. It's safe. Elemimele (talk) 16:11, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FTZ 1 TR 6

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Unsourced. Fails WP:GNG.4meter4 (talk) 18:46, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Added references, is notable as a historical ISDN protocol. Just needs some expansion from the German article! Liandrei (talk) 11:55, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Weak keep Based on german article and the sources added by Liandrei it seems like this is a notable protocol. Given it's a topic of fairly niche interest, I am wondering if a merge and redirect to ISDN would be more appropriate rather than keep. Anonrfjwhuikdzz (talk) 00:29, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The Fall of the Islamic World

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No notable sources available Kingsacrificer (talk) 20:14, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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It's notable, but let's merge anyway. After a fair bit of hunting, I think the two best sources for WP:NBOOK are the journal review cited in the article and this short newspaper review. I had to find a new, working link for the journal article review, but it's sigcov and the journal seems OK at a glance, with a reputable-looking editorial board chaired by Mohammad Hashim Kamali.

My summary of the other sourcing available: The article cites another newspaper article that I wasn't able to access, but the title sounds like an interview; while searching, I found a fair number of profiles and interviews that just give this book a very passing mention. I also found a second journal review, in Mankind Quarterly 51 (4), p. 490-499; I can access it through my library, but I get spooky "this page is not safe" warnings when I try to go directly to the site, so I don't link it here. The review is certainly sigcov (five full pages by Herbert F. Mataré) but I'm not sure if the journal constitutes a reliable source.

However! WP:NOTPLOT tells us not to have articles that are summary-only descriptions of works. The book may be notable, but the current article contains nothing but summary. With WP:PAGEDECIDE in mind, I advise a merge to Hamed Abdel-Samad for now; there's plenty of room for it there. It could always be split out again into its own article should that ever be called for. Feel free to ping me to execute the merge if that is the consensus. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 09:05, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect Per nom. I’m less convinced that the book is notable but this solution seems best as AtD. Mccapra (talk) 06:03, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Castell-Remlingen

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Fails WP:GNG. I was unable to verify the content in this article.4meter4 (talk) 05:13, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep it was a minor county but it certainly existed. See 1, 2 and 3. Mccapra (talk) 06:17, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It was listed in this 1839 book as being a part of Bavaria [4] with population 9,700. Not sure what kind of polity it was at that point in time.

it was a county based on a fairly small town. As you say it seems to have been mediatised. Mccapra (talk) 18:32, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the sources are very confusing, because they seem to suggest that it's a branch of the House of Castell, rather than a geographic location (e.g. [5]).

It seems likely this was a mediatised house at that point in time, but we largely have only primary sources on this subject. Redirect to County of Castell unless someone can sort out this mess Katzrockso (talk) 07:03, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article says that a portion was split from Castell-Remlingen too, called Castell-Castell :) Geschichte (talk) 17:37, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is a confusing tangle, and the sourcing isn't great... Hence why I said I couldn't verify our presentation. It doesn't help that the German wikipedia doesn't currently cover this either (not that it is always accurate).4meter4 (talk) 17:40, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hellmut Wolff

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Does not seem to be notable - no sigcov, and there only seem to be seven passing mentions in Reveal the Power of the Pendulum. I found no reliable source to link him definitively to the third Reich. N.B. this Hellmut Wolff is a different person, and previously appeared erroneously as an external link in this article SunloungerFrog (talk) 12:24, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Weak keep – Per WP:OFFLINE sources in de.wiki article. Despite it being an unusual activity, he appears to be someone of at least some noteworthy. Svartner (talk) 23:43, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment the dewiki article says his first name was Alfred Kurt Hellmut Wolff and he just published his books under the name Hellmut. This seems to be true [6] (this seems to refer to the third reich thing). Alternatively the Nazi connection way be from confusing him with a different astrologist with the same last name who did (claim to, at least) work for the Nazis. My guess is he's probably notable but he seems to have used a bunch of different names so finding sources is hard and I don't feel comfortable voting yet. PARAKANYAA (talk) 18:47, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete for lack of demonstrable notability. The arguments about "off line sources" are not invalid per se but here all we have are essentially variants of "there must be available sources somewhere". -The Gnome (talk) 18:22, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep In this Italian language text, scholar Rainer Guldin discusses the relationship between Wolff and Vilem Flusser. On its own, this is not enough, but it is reasonable to assume that most coverage about him is in German, and we don't have a proper target for a redirect. Kelob2678 (talk) 14:04, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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