Deletion of Claus Peter Poppe

Comment: 1) In addition to the very real issue of sources and BLP considerations, I only see a few mentions of the fact that because a subject is |notable on another Wikipedia site does not make it so here. Every article should display notability on its own merits. I'm a lightweight deleter, but still, after a couple of thousand deletions in the last year, I see a very common pattern: song article created and deleted because artist is non-notable; artist article created; song article re-created and no-longer qualifies for A9. There are similar scenarios; BIO articles created in near proximity to company articles, in support of each other. We're like deer in the headlights on this (sometimes). So here we have a similar situation: they're on another project's Wikipedia (a non-trivial one, at that - with apologies to other, less-established versions). But this doesn't mean they are notable here. No prejudice against recreation of any (or even all) if and when notability is established in reliable sources, same as any other article. 2) I would also like to see some sort of policy on trans-wiki articles and mass creation of new articles; that may not be appropriate in this discussion but it would help if such existed. I would add that, quite apart from the merits (or lack thereof) of these articles, their robotic creation clogged up the new pages patrol, such that those watching the list would have to look carefully for clear CSD candidates (which I agree these are not). The limitation on creation is a separate issue, not really for this AfD since they are already created, but bears noting
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: all un|sourced |BLPs. The rest could be salvaged
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS||WP:BLP)

Comment: From evidence already shown above, human hands (as opposed to bots) and reliable sources are both needed to fulfill core  policy ("We must get the article right"). This mass creation of dodgy BLPs is all wrong. Allow recreation of individual articles by human hands, with reliable sources
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)

Comment: per failure to establish notability as written, conform to . No objection to recreation in a useful form, i.e. with dates of birth and death, political position and at least one source
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)

Comment: Claus Peter Poppe was a member of a state legislature in Germany, as is referenced in the article, which clearly meets , , , and 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTE||WP:BIO||WP:BLP||WP:V)

Comment: A proposal for the bulk deletion of almost three thousand articles has to be much more convincing than this is.  I cannot countenance a drastic expansion of |living person biography policy such that it would compass the deletion of ''any article that might be vandalized in the future'', which seems to be the apparent concern.  Even the http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Biographies_of_living_people Wikimedia Foundation resolution that underlies BLP policy observes that "(p)eople sometimes vandalize articles about living people. The Wikimedia community has developed tools and techniques for counteracting vandalism: in general they seem to work reasonably well."   And, since |Wikipedia is not paper, any political figure notable in the German language is also notable in English.  It seems that people are becoming too timid rather than |bold in the creation of new content, if an adequate article of a politician on a foreign language edition does not make a ''prima facie'' case for a translation of that article in English.I'd suggest that a bulk deletion of these 3000 articles be first mooted on the German Wikipedia.  See how that flies.  If inadequacy of references, BLP concerns, or lack of notability leads to the deletion of the original articles in German, I'd defer to the German Wikipedia's conclusions and delete only those articles.  But I doubt that a similar proposal for bulk deletion of material would sit well there.  It shouldn't sit well here either
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP||WP:NOTPAPER||WP:BOLD)

Comment: With no prejudice to re-create them at a later time with proper references. (Note: Linking to the German Wikipedia, to me at least, does not qualify as a reference. Wikipedia, even the German variant, is not a |reliable source
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)