Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alois Buttinger
Mentions in books are not automatically ironclad proof of notability in and of themselves — the degree to which book content does or doesn't help to make him notable is strictly coterminous with how ''substantive'' that mention is or isn't. An entire chapter about him would help to establish his notability; a glancing mention of his existence on one page, in a context whose primary subject is somebody or something else, would not. So it's not enough to just list books that appear to have his name in them somewhere: you would need to actually demonstrate how ''much'' each book does or doesn't say about him before we can evaluate how much each book does or doesn't actually contribute any GNG points. So without a more detailed summary of how much those books do or don't actually say, I can't evaluate how much they do or don't help — so I can only evaluate this on the basis of the sources present in the article. But one piece of purely local coverage in the local newspaper is not an instant free pass over GNG in and of itself, founding a non-notable local youth summer camp is not "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to pass GNG, and everything else stated in the article is just biographical information rather than notability claims. I'm willing to reconsider this if somebody can actually ''read'' the books to provide more detailed proof that Buttinger is substantively a ''subject'' and not just a trivial namecheck, but as it stands nothing here is enough yet. And per , the fact that an article exists on the German Wikipedia does not automatically mean that one has to exist on the English Wikipedia too — on the evidence at hand here, the German article should probably be deleted too, and the only reason I'm not personally listing it for deletion myself is that I can't sprachen zie deutsch to navigate their deletion process
— User:Bearcat, 15:47, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:WAX (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)