Deletion of Johann Georg Mozart

Comment: people who are "highly interested" in any celebrity might want to learn their family background, but creating articles for every ancestor of a famous person runs afoul of  which says that notability is not inherited (nor does it flow to ancestors not otherwise notable
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTABILITY)

Comment: as explained above. The nominator, now blocked indefinitely, writes "His mention is only in passing …" which is not true; I wonder how the nominator failed to notice the substantial coverage |BEFORE the nomination
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE)

Comment: It would be inappropriate to speedily close an AFD which has several good-faith delete !votes. There is absolutely no inherent notability just for being the quite ordinary grandfather of some famous person.  notes that notability does not flow to someone just because they are related to a notable person. He is only mentioned in connection with his progeny, so a mention in the descendants' articles might be appropriate rather than a stand-alone article, as recommended by 
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTABILITY||WP:N)