Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mein Leben

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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 of the debate was no consensus to delete, so kept. Johnleemk | Talk 12:03, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mein Leben

Okay, I originally flagged this as a cleanup-verify about two weeks ago, but seeing as there's been no further verification (and since I can't verify it with Google myself), I'm moving it here because it sounds pretty much like a hoax. So, Delete per nom. -LichYoshi 01:51, 22 November 2005 (UTC) See my vote below. -03:47, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Keep - people not cleaning it up in time is not a valid reason for deletion. Trollderella 02:36, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
But inability to verify clearly is - giving this two weeks grace was overly generous in the first place. Trollderella, inclusionism is a perfectly valid response to nominations, but please consider WP:V as a fundamental requirement for voting for keeping any article. (oh, delete btw) --Doc ask? 10:29, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Weak delete - *sigh*... I hate doing this, but... no verifiability. Google search for it reveals no results related to this. There have been a couple of books entitled "Mein Leben" (including one by Oskar Kokoschka), but considering Hitler's notability, it would be amazing to me for this to be true and to have no record of it anywhere that I can find on the Internet. --bbatsell | « give me a ring » 02:49, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Patented nonsense. -- Миборовский U|T|C|E 03:04, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Rewrite Mein Leben is the title of several other actual books. Remove false information and write something worthwhile. mdd4696 04:02, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
  • There might be other books called Mein Leben (My Life is a generic enough name) but none of them are notable. Otherwise we'd have known about them, no? -- Миборовский U|T|C|E 07:36, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Speedy Delete as silly vandalism. During the Nazi era, Mein Kampf was a best seller. Any other book by Hitler would have been a best seller. There is no verifiable evidence that he wrote another book let alone one with this title. There may well be other notable books with that name but we shouldn't keep a hoax on Wikipedia while waiting for someone to rewrite. Thanks to Aleph4 for the rewrite. KeepCapitalistroadster 05:00, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. NSLE (讨论+extra) 05:56, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete Um, it's called a hoax people. Eusebeus 07:48, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete per Capitalroadster. Durova 10:32, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Changed vote to strong delete in light of the changes. The phrase is far too generic. If it's going to include the translated title of Trotsky's autobiography then it might as well expand to George Sand's Histoire de ma Vie, Jane Fonda's My Life So Far, Booker T. Washington's The Story of My Life and Work et cetera ad nauseam. Use of the phrase "my life" in an autobiography is inherently trivial.Durova 17:54, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete unverifiable. Anything related to Hitler should be easy to find. Since this isn't, I consider it to be a hoax.- Mgm|(talk) 10:44, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Wolfenstein 3D. -- Plutor 12:51, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment I have REWRITTEN the entry. Please reconsider your votes. --Aleph4 14:14, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Another comment. The fact that I have rewritten the article should not be read as an implicit "keep" vote. --Aleph4 15:21, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Aleph4's rewrite. (Was Trotsky's autobiography really called Mein Leben, though? Did he actually write it in German, or is Mein Leben just a translation of some Russian title? In the latter case it doesn't belong.) — Haeleth Talk 15:01, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Former content was unverified, a likely hoax. Delete even the rewritten version unless any of the autobiographies is found to be notable by itself. Wikipedia is not amazon.com (sorry, I meant to say amazon.de). - Mike Rosoft 21:06, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Rewrite, limit to autobiographies only called Mein Leben in their first language of publishing. -LichYoshi 03:47, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, expandable. I've added a full list to the article talk page; I'll add them if this isn't deleted. Chick Bowen 05:07, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete Per nom. Joshua Johaneman 08:36, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per Durova. -- JJay 09:52, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Changing prior delete to No vote, provided current listees on the article can be substantiated. -- Миборовский U|T|C|E|Chugoku Banzai! 06:18, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete Izehar 16:38, 27 November 2005 (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.