Talk:Karl Linder

Response to Declination of Draft Article

I was surprised to see that my draft article on Karl Linder was declined for notability, requiring the need for additional sources. I relied on two sources that I have successfully used to produce several other Wikipedia biographical articles on gauleiters (which were not only accepted, but rated as C-class articles). These two sources are also cited in numerous other Wikipedia articles on individual gauleiters. The Höffkes book has for decades been the premier German-language reference work on this subject. Similarly, the two-volume (soon to be three-volume) Miller & Schulz book is acknowledged to be the latest, and most comprehensive English-language reference work on the lives and careers of the gauleiters. It contains detailed accounts of their lives both before and during the Nazi regime. Neither source contains only “passing references” to their subjects. Both published sources are verifiable, reliable, independent, secondary sources on the topic.

With regard to the comment that you don't believe that Regional/local Gauleiters would meet WP:NPOL guideline, I disagree and offer the following for consideration:

• The guideline states that among those who are presumed to be notable are: ”Politicians and judges who have held international, national, or (for countries with federal or similar systems of government) state/province–wide office, or have been members of legislative bodies at those levels.”

• Germany was a Federal Republic and Hesse-Nassau was a province of Prussia under both the Weimar Republic and the Nazi regime.

• The gauleiter was the chief administrative official of the Nazi Party in his jurisdiction. He was appointed by Hitler and reported directly to him. In most cases, he also held the chief civil position in the province but, even when he did not, he wielded considerable authority as Hitler’s effective viceroy in the province.

• Karl Linder served as the Gauleiter or Deputy Gauleiter in Hesse-Nassau off-and-on for a total of about 13 years. Hesse-Nassau had a population of some 3.1 million people in 1941.

• In addition, for 4 years Linder was the Burgermeister of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany’s fifth largest city with a population of over 555,000 people.

• He was a member of the Reichstag, the national parliament, from 1930 to 1945. He was also a member of the Hesse-Nassau provincial parliament and served as the Party’s faction leader in that body.

• He therefore held major “state/province–wide office” and was a member of the legislative bodies at provincial and national levels throughout the Weimar and Nazi regimes from 1926 to 1945.

• Wikipedia contains articles on roughly 90 other gauleiters. Many of these articles rely on both the Höffkes and the Miller & Schulz sources for information. Some rely on them exclusively.

I believe that the Karl Linder draft article demonstrates notability consistent with basic Wikipedia and specific WP:NPOL guidelines. As such, it deserves to be published alongside the scores of other similarly-sourced articles on gauleiters. Respectfully, Historybuff0105 (talk) 16:06, 10 December 2020 (UTC)