Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eduard Einstein (2nd nomination)

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The result was merge into Einstein family. (non-admin closure) Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 07:05, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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In the 2006 AfD the main Keep argument seemed to be "give the article time for development". A decade on, it is still entirely reliant for notability on the subject being a son of Albert Einstein. Notability is not inherited.

The other argument given then was one of completeness, that interested people could jump around the various family members. That is not a reason to retain because we are not a genealogical website. We do now have Einstein family, into which this could be merged but, frankly, that also relies significantly on inheritance for its notability and the very few independently notable family members also (rightly) have their own articles. A brief paragraph or so in the main Albert Einstein article would suffice and, I think, such information is already present. Sitush (talk) 03:42, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge This article appears to be a genealogical entry, somthing against WP:DIRECTORY guidelines. However, it appears to meet the requirement of significant coverage. There should also be coverage of Eduard Einstein on some page due to the affect he would have had on his father. As mentioned in the previous deletion argument, the Albert Einstein page is quite long, so merging the page there would not be ideal; combined with the convention of placing biographies of relatives of Albert Einstein on the Einstein Family page this makes me believe the best option is to merge the Eduard Einstein article into that article. A similar arrangement can be found on the French Wikipedia, creating precedent for this action (however it should be noted that several other Wikipedia's have separate articles about Eduard Einstein). — Preceding unsigned comment added by FactualCollector7d1 (talk • contribs) 04:43, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• So find the significant effect it had on him - this was raised at the 1st AfD ten years ago. As for sources, the refs seem mostly to be primary. And policies/guidelines at other Wikimedia projects set no precedent for en-WP. - Sitush (talk) 05:16, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:30, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Switzerland-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:30, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge into Einstein family -- it appears that many members of the Einstein family have individual entries: Template:Albert Einstein; some are individually notable and some are not. I believe that in this particular case the sources are rather thin to establish individual notability so a merge would be a good option. K.e.coffman (talk) 23:03, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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