Talk:Willy Riedel

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Does not meet WP:SOLDIER as did not hold a general's rank, and police service is not generally covered by SOLDIER. Sig RS coverage for either Wehrmacht service or Volkspolizei service not found.

No de.wiki article. Please also see a note at MilHist Talk Archives for background behind the redirect. In summary, per the outcome of the discussion at Notability:People on notability of Knight's Cross recipients: permalink, certain recipients were deemed non notable and WP:SOLDIER has been modified accordingly: diff. The articles of these recipients are being redirected to alphabetical lists. K.e.coffman (talk) 23:54, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Kecoffman, please do not redirect/delete articles without discussion. This man is notable for other reasons. Just because there is no article the German wiki on an East German officer does not mean he is not notable. auntieruth (talk) 14:52, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I responded at Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(people)#Current_consensus. K.e.coffman (talk) 23:40, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]