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The result was delete. Tone 13:50, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bolko von Schweinichen (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Article on a police officer in Nazi Germany, created by now-banned User:OberRanks, initially full of apparently unsourced (or falsely sourced) content. Without the unverifiable stuff, it's now stubbed back to a single sentence. One might expect this officer would easily meet inherent notability standards – he was once the head of the German Ordnungspolizei police force in occupied France. (Although this statement might give a bit of an exaggerated impression of his actual importance, because he wasn't the actual head of police; the real boss was another higher-ranking SS guy, who commanded both the Sicherheitspolizei and Ordnungspolizei). Nevertheless, it's likely he played at least some role in the administrative preparations of the Holocaust in France, among other things [1].

While this would clearly imply notability, the fact is: the sources are simply not there. After some searching, the only things I could come up with are just what's in the article now: two or three books that just barely confirm his existence, his rank and his job title at one particular time during the German occupation, no more than one sentence in passing in each source. No biographical details anywhere except for a birth year, no source treating him as a subject of biographical interest in its own right. Without biographical sources we can't write a biography. I'll happily retract this nomination if anything more substantial turns up.

(Note about web searches: the majority of web hits are about a different person of the same name, an architect born in the 1950s.) Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:45, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:48, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 03:33, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 03:33, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• I can't find anything on a web search (and yes, the architect does get in the way), so unless someone can find paper-based sources, I think we have to Delete. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 13:17, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: does not meet WP:ANYBIO. My searches have not produced anything substantial. The absense of a de.wiki article strongly suggests a lack of notability for this obscure figure of the Nazi era. K.e.coffman (talk) 04:04, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, not shown to be notable for stand alone article. Kierzek (talk) 16:52, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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