David Goodman wrote:
The question is how much of an article is acceptable. A stub together with a bibliographic reference can be written for anyone who appears in a print reference book--if the position or accomplishment seems notable. deWP has many articles of this sort, but when they are translated into enWP, they are generally deleted very quickly.
I haven't had that problem myself; what sorts of articles are getting deleted? I've translated quite a few very short articles on obscure 19th-century Germans from the German Wikipedia to English and I'd be surprised if anyone proposed deleting any of them, even if many consist of a few sentences of a stub and a reference or two.
-Mark