Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gründerzeit

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. east.718 at 20:36, 11/15/2007

[edit] Gründerzeit

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The content of this article is completely wrong. The term is not used this way. Further explanation on the article's talk page (the IP number is me). -- Clemens 16:02, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

• Keep and rewrite. Inaccuracy is not grounds for deletion if the subject is noteworthy and viable for a WP article (which it clearly is). If the article has to be rewritten from scratch then so be it, but there's no need to delete it to achieve this. Perhaps a translation of the German Wikipedia article would make a good basis for the English article (not that I'm volunteering - I can just about manage "zwei Bier bitte"!) ~Matticus ^T_C 16:19, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep and edit --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 16:24, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep and rewrite Yeah, putting in a translation request from the German article should do it for a starting point. According to said article, the term actually refers to the economic phase in Germany and Austria in the 19th Century, up to the stock market crash of 1873. But then, I am neither an expert on German history nor fluent in German. Mr_pand 18:15, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep (and edit?) I didn't really pay attention in German history classes, but this is indeed a very notable time period, especially for German economy and architecture. – sgeureka ^t•c 19:02, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete unless cleaned up with sources provided. Stifle (talk) 19:59, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. A review of sources suggests the article is not as far off base as the nom suggests. There are differing definitions, but they almost always refer to "the period following unification". The term definitely is used for interior design and architecture up to around the turn of the century. It's just possible that the German meaning is more restrictive than that used by English-speaking sources. --Dhartung | Talk 20:04, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
• Marginal keep. I am revising the article based on the German original. It seemed to me that the English version was distorted, and needs to be re-written. BTW if anyone wants to help with the language - I am not familiar with the English version of some German terms. Once it is completed, then I think the issue needs to be re-addressed. docboat 03:37, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.