Talk:Hans Boner

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1. The inter-lang lks imply articles in the German, Polish and Japanese WPs, which in fact do not exist; what is more, there are no red-lks to them (suggesting they've not disappeared after undergoing a deletion vote like en: uses), and a Google search for

   "Hans Boner" site:wikipedia.org

   produces no hits. (Presumably the English version is too new for this one to appear.) I am removing them.

2. The German-language ext ref purports simply to be a list of publications by a German-speaking scholar, Franz Staab; the only info in it relevant to the article is this apparent bibliographic reference

   Hans Boner aus Landau (ca. 1450-1523). Der polnische Fugger, in: Pfälzische Geschichte, Bd. 1, hg. von Karl-Heinz Rothenberger, Karl Scherer, Franz Staab, Jürgen Keddigkeit, Kaiserslautern 2001, S. 213-214.

   which translates roughly as

   "Hans Boner from Landau (ca. 1450-1523). The Polish Fugger", in: Palatine History, vol. 1, publ. by Karl-Heinz Rothenberger, Karl Scherer, Franz Staab, Jürgen Keddigkeit, Kaiserslautern 2001, pp. 213-214.

   The existing ext lk is thus of some slight value as a source of his dates and "the Polish Fugger", but not for providing readers with more info. It is a poor candidate for a reference item, since it will surely be redundant to any refs that come close to verifying any of the rest of the article. It's important to have it on this talk page, but i'm removing it from the article completely.

3. I suggest the Franz Staab title is not as compatible with a notable financier as with Staab coining "the Polish Fugger" to use in the first modern report on an obscure medieval figure who is non-notable and of interest only to a handful of specialists.
4. Googling

   "Hans Boner" -Hans-Boner-Straße -Hans-Boner-Str -Ulrich-Boner

   (the Ulrich prohibition knocking out copies of our name list and Dab) restricted to German language produces "22 of about 32 German pages"; suggesting non-notability.

5. The existence of the street bearing his name is of interest. Google searches with and without "Landau " in the same page give "22 of about 39 German pages" and no hits respectively, suggesting that within Germany, the interest is not great enough to trigger streetnames in other cities. For this reason, and that of the preceding numbered point, i intend to AfD the article as n-n in the absence of better evidence of notability.

--Jerzy•t 07:21, 29 June 2006 (UTC)