Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Von Möllendorf

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/no consensus to delete. W.marsh 18:36, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Von Möllendorf

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Bump from speedy. No opinion. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-02-17 20:37Z

• Delete, there are hundreds of low nobility families in Germany with similar members being some kind of official, artist or other. If any of the members are notable they should have their own article Alf photoman 00:23, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment: The German Wikipedia already has more articles on the Moellendorffs/Möllendorf(f)s. There are articles on two of these Moellendorffs (which seems to be the more common spelling, at least during the 18th and 19th centuries) in the old Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie from the 19th century. The newer Neue Deutsche Biographie seems to treat most of them in one big article on the whole family. Some other reference works, such as the Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie also have articles on the Moellendorffs. The ADB has been scanned and put online, but in order to improve the article any further, both the NDB and the DBE and other paper references need to be checked in a library. The index to the NDB is however available at the same website: http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/~ndb/ndbmaske.html. The most famous member of the family is probably the philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, who belongs to an adopted branch. Even if some of these individuals no doubt should have articles of their own, it seems reasonable to keep information about their relationships in one article. Pharamond 07:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

• Weak keep per Pharamond. If individuals members of the family this type of family history/disambiguation page ought to exist. -- Black Falcon 18:34, 23 February 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.