Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johann Hurlinger

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The result was delete. Yunshui ^雲 _水 12:05, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Johann Hurlinger

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WP:NOTABILITY. The entire page consists of three short sentences about a man with little to no information about his life outside of the feat that made him """famous;""" additionally, the only citation on the page leads to a dead website, and almost every Google result about him copies from this article word-for-word. If "Hurlinger" deserves a page, then everyone who has ever featured in the Guinness Book of World Records for an unusual and quirky feat deserves one as well. Also, according to the German Wikipedia page on "Hurlinger," his record was falsified and his actual name is Johann Haslinger, meaning that the article is relying on a factually incorrect Guinness World Record. HawthOffHead (talk) 02:52, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment German article Falsified seems a bit strong. It could well be simple mistranslation. It appears that rather than walikng on his hands he was in some type of wheeled cart and simple propelled himself with his hands. So... a bad article based on a dead link that appears to have been based on a mistake. The question is, was there sufficient coverage to make him notable for what he did do (and under his actual name), and does the mistake by Guiness help? Meters (talk) 06:16, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There's very little coverage that can be found on Google Books. Most of it is just Guinness and books aimed at children that likely copied Guinness. The only two books that may not have directly taken his story from Guinness or the article are far from notable coverage; one is about mythological creatures and the other about vascular transport in plants, and both make very brief mention of him to show how humans can use their arms and hands like legs and feet before moving on. And that's under the Hurlinger name, making it likely that those two books took it from Guinness or Wikipedia as well, especially since both were published in the 2010s. Under Haslinger, it's even worse - not a single mention on Google Books or Google News, and the only mentions of him under that name on the first ten pages of a Google search for it are copies from the German article. It seems obvious, at least in my opinion, that the mistake by Guinness is the sole reason anyone in 2020 knows about his supposed record, and that there was next to no coverage until it was made. HawthOffHead (talk) 07:22, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Austria-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 08:25, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 08:25, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete no actual claim to notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:57, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The event itself received some limited coverage at the time. Really nothing about the person. Everything since then seems to be rooted in the mistaken claim by Guinness. At best this would be a case of WP:1E, and I agree with John Pack Lambert and HawthOffHead that it does not even seem to meet that. Meters (talk) 06:19, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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.