Talk:Kurt Ebener/Archive 1

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Archive 1

The best

"Ebener was one of the best pilots of the Battle of Stalingrad". This phrase appears in the 'Career' section, para 1. I have deleted it. Maybe I should have got some consensus first, but to see "one of the best" is vagueness to the nth degree. It adds nothing to the article, even if it was cited, which it is not. You might as well say "he could/should/would have been one of the best" - its meaningless. Its like saying that a ship is the length of two football pitches or that the vessel is the height of three buses placed end-to-end.

If anyone wants to put it back in, please do, but make sure you have a cast-iron reference.

RASAM (talk) 18:02, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Notability

Does not meet WP:SOLDIER & sig RS coverage not found link, just passing mentions.

No de.wiki article exists. Did not hold a significant command and topped out as Oberleutnant. Successful completion of missions (sorties flown, # of enemy aircraft shot down, etc) is not part of SOLDIER. A MilHist RfC on this topic has failed to gain consensus in May of 2017:

MilHist:RfC on the notability of flying aces.

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) 02:14, 13 August 2017 (UTC)