A fact from Józef Tusk appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 July 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Latest comment: 12 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
While this article covers some significant events, I'm wondering if its subject is actually independently notable. Most of the coverage in sources has to do with the Polish presidential campaign and the candidate, the grandson, Donald Tusk. It might be better to include the information from this article in the Donald Tusk article. I'm not seeing anything here that would make this person INDEPENDENTLY notable - and per Wikipedia policy, notability is not inherited (or "upherited" in this case, or whatever the term would be). I thought I'd raise this issue on the talk page first thought, before taking it to AfD.Volunteer Marek (talk) 04:00, 7 July 2011 (UTC)Reply
As an aside the article is a pretty egregious violation of the Gdansk (Danzig) vote, which states: In biographies of clearly Polish persons, the name should be used in the form Gdańsk (Danzig) and later Gdańsk exclusively. (Just checked, Herkus' version [1] actually did follow the guideline (thanks), but then we got our friendly banned anon getting busy on the article).Volunteer Marek (talk) 04:03, 7 July 2011 (UTC)Reply
I think the events made him notable, just like Oskar Daubmann wouldn't be notable if not for his final (?) con that made international press. J. Tusk also got at least one book on him, and a number of articles. I think this makes his notability separate from that of the Wehrmacht affair. If one disagrees, I'd suggest nominating the pl wiki article for deletion, and seeing what Polish wikipedians think about this (the rules are quite similar to those here, see pl:WP:SDU). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 05:14, 7 July 2011 (UTC)Reply
