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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 12:06, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fritz Christen (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

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"The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline nor the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (biographies) requirement. WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant coverage on Gnews, Gbooks or Gscholar". Best is a few sentence-long summary of his story here which does state that "An outstanding example of bravery and obedience to orders was given by SS Sturmann Fritz Christen", but in the end, that's one short paragraph or so, and his claim to fame rests on a WP:SINGLEEVENT. This kind of incident may merit a sentence or two in a stand-alone article about the battle or wider campaign it was a part of, but I am having trouble seeing how a stand-alone biography of him is justified. On a sidenote, WP:NSOLDIER seems depreciated, so we default to WP:NBIO. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:14, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:14, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:14, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (C). (If kept, needs a complete rewrite: this type of hero-worshipping hagiography is not appropriate for an encyclopaedia). —Kusma (𐍄·𐌺) 12:29, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete on notability and total lack of useable content. This has some of the worst POV I have ever encountered on Wikipedia - a "stunning act of individual bravery", seriously? —Brigade Piron (talk) 21:50, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. Considering comments above, I'll ping User:K.e.coffman, who, if memory serves, has done some past cleanup of Nazi-era "hagiographies" and like in the past. (I did review other articles created by the now mostly inactive author and I did not detect anything similar, so probably this is not going to lead us to some larger cleanup task, but the more eyes the better). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:31, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: does not meet WP:BIO; insufficiently notable to be worth a redirect. --K.e.coffman (talk) 17:57, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Single event. I would, however, note that I've encountered this level of dramatic writing in other entries documenting award-winning soldiers. This is not unique. Intothatdarkness 00:34, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete a non-notable German soldier.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:38, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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