Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bruno Frey

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The result of the debate was keep. PoccilScript 01:00, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bruno Frey

The CV link makes me suspect that this is vanity. -Aranel ("Sarah") 21:09, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC

• To the contrary, the CV suggests that he is a very distinguished contemporary economist (with two honorary doctorates), probably on of the most distinguished ones in his country. Obvious Keep. Martg76 23:04, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • He does seem to be pretty well-known based on Google results. I wasn't able to load the PDF to check (can't we link to the site from which the PDF is linked?). This was not at all obvious based on the text of the article I first saw; the current article looks much less suspicious. -Aranel ("Sarah") 00:05, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • It is still the same text, just wikified :-) I've changed the link to what you suggested. Martg76 02:30, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable in my view. --JuntungWu 01:26, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• del. average professor. notability not seen. Mikkalai 08:14, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Has published over a dozen books and 350 journal articles which is more than the average professor. Hope to flesh out the article in next day or so. Capitalistroadster 10:11, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Have now fleshed out the article. Frey is known within economic circles for his critique of Homo economicus and his writings on other forms of motivation. He was one of ten experts selected for the Copenhagen Consensus. As three of the other panellists hd won the Nobel Prize for Economics, it was a high powered panel. He has edited the Kyklos political ecoomy journal since 1969 nd has been a professor at Zurich since 1977. He is a Research Director at the Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts in Switzerland. If you consider the 12 books and over 350 articles this man has an international reputation as an economist. Capitalistroadster 05:00, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as he's a full professor at a good university, with several books and over 350 journal publications to his name. Although professor appears to be one of the few positions we set some requirement for, if he was an actor or a member of a band it would appear he'd automatically get an article. Or a pokemon character of course. Appearing for ten seconds in a badly drawn Japanese cartoon is clearly so much more important than being an Economics professor in Zurich (where I suspect they take their economics pretty seriously). Average Earthman 16:16, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Article does not establish sufficent notability. Gamaliel 16:16, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Delete, still looks like possible vanity - note the article was created by a single edit from an anonymous user, and is that users only edit on Wikipedia. A CV alone does not establish ones notability. Megan1967 00:30, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Strongest possible Keep. Seriously, if a Research Director that has written more than a dozen books (translated into at least eight languages) and 350 journal articles, been the editor of a peer reviewed scientific journal for 35 years and holds two honorary doctorates is not notable enough for Wikipedia, we have some major deleting to do. Alarm 22:36, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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