Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oswald Probst

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The result was no consensus‎ for deletion. None likely to arise, and no need to run this for another week. asilvering (talk) 02:35, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oswald Probst

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Insufficient SIGCOV found for a Lugstub. Searched newspapers I was able to access and could not find any. GNG Fail. InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 19:33, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Olympics, and Austria. InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 19:33, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And now at over 40 active Olympians at AFD. Add it up with the PRODs and we're probably over 100 deletions I'm supposed to look into within a week. That is wildly excessive and makes it impossible to find the truly notable ones. Could you and LibStar slow down? BeanieFan11 (talk) 19:36, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Unable to find anything resembling WP:SIGCOV for this subject on the internet archive or TWL. I did find [[1]] but it isn't independent or significant coverage of the subject. Let'srun (talk) 02:14, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It seems surprising that there isn't more about his death considering the circumstances. Ike Lek (talk) 02:17, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Question Is he the same Oswald Probst who was the vice president of the Swiss Alpine Club? Kingsif (talk) 20:59, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep Anyway, champion at the first international archery event held in Austria in 1963 and (first ever) Austrian champion in 1964 [2], nice paragraph about him here on being the oldest archer when he went to the Olympics and how he'd been active before archery was recognised in Austria. A mini-bio of him at a book from Salzkammergut Bogensport Club [3], mentioning his many titles and being part of the 1965 World Championship team but unable to compete for health reasons, and which also shows him nicknamed in records as Ossi Probst. The German Wikipedia article cites a biography of him at the Union Wien website, for domestic club competition. We can confirm some of his club-level info from the Austrian government, namely how he was champion over every distance in 1978. And there's some mention of his earlier clubs here, though I'm not sure how good Zielsport Zeitung is as a source. Both the Olympics website and Austrian Olympic Committee say he came 33rd at the Olympics [4] [5] when (German) Wikipedia has him at 41st - should probably fix that. Bit of a mention of his death at World Archery [6] (also mention of him being Austria's first Olympic archer). The Ossi Probst memorial tournament was held in March 2016 [7]. Notability is demonstrated through these sources and the accolades they describe, I believe. Kingsif (talk) 21:33, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

NB: Probst and other Austrians would be a lot easier to search for if Arbeiter Zeitung wasn't indefinitely offline. Kingsif (talk) 21:45, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, per Kingsif. BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:42, 15 July 2025 (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.