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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:28, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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No references, non-notable, long gone tribe, fails WP:GNG Crainsaw (talk) 16:17, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History and Poland. Crainsaw (talk) 16:17, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I added references from the corresponding articles in the Polish and German Wikipedias. "Long gone" is never a valid reason for deletion. Once notable, always notable. And even before these references were added, the article included the statement that the tribe was mentioned by the Bavarian Geographer. WP:BEFORE is really important. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 17:47, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Eastmain. Mccapra (talk) 19:10, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 22:04, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: Was a WP:BEFORE search even attempted? I was able to easily find multiple books seemingly providing WP:SIGCOV ([1][2]); [3] also provides good supplementary coverage. That is also me only looking through English language sources; Silesian historiography is primarily written in German and Polish, so academic literature is far more likely to exist in those languages. Curbon7 (talk) 23:20, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Found additional coverage in a German book: [4]. Curbon7 (talk) 23:22, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Obviously notable as mentioned by the Bavarian Geographer. Volunteer Marek 13:54, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Early Keep per WP:SNOW. Good faith nominator may have missed WP:BEFORE B2 and D4, as both gBooks and gScholar search results have clear, non-trivial references. Anyone here read both German and Polish? Odds are this could be a very strong article with a little Liebe and Miłość. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 19:46, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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