Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theodor Kiepe

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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 22:47, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Theodor Kiepe[edit]

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I don't think Theodor Kiepe is notable, and don't think there is any real coverage of this person. Also please don't confuse "Theodore Kiepe KG" a company with the person. Clue - can't even find when he was born or died. Current article is just a WP:CONTENT FORK from Vossloh Kiepe. Oranjblud (talk) 05:34, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete No evidence of notability independent of the firm that he founded, on whose article he is aloready covered in as much biographical depth as in this article. No biographical article on German Wikipedia either. AllyD (talk) 08:11, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 09:56, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

comment - give me a source - any language - I'll write the ** article. I've got nothing.Oranjblud (talk) 11:41, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 15:05, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Vossloh Kiepe and add to German Wikipedia - I searched with Google News archives and immediately received all German-language results, suggesting that any reliable sources would be German, not English. Google Books provided results here. The first result (Who owns whom) appears to mention the company but not Theodor Kiepe. The second and third results are books that Theodor co-authored. The fourth result appears to mention Theodor only once. The book "ERA headlights" appears to be a good mention but the preview never shows the text. This article seems very interesting but it's likely that reliable and significant coverage may be German especially archive newspapers that probably haven't been transferred to the Internet yet. SwisterTwister talk 18:10, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No - you have misread. As I tried to explain above those books are by the company - they are company publications - hence the author is listed as Kiepe, Theodor, firm, Düsseldorf [1] - that means the company - not the person. The ERA highlights book is also about the firm not the person.Oranjblud (talk) 14:46, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Very short article that gives no information that isn't already present on the Vossloh Kiepe page. The person itself pretty much falls short of WP:BASIC. --SUFC Boy 20:54, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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