Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stefan Rahmstorf

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page, if it exists; or after the end of this archived section. The result of the debate was Keep --Allen3 ^talk July 7, 2005 22:51 (UTC)

[edit] Stefan Rahmstorf

del. average professor. No notability presented. mikka (t) 1 July 2005 00:50 (UTC)

• Weak delete - but bordering on weak keep - the linked website indicates that he's had an awful lot of small things published (listed here), including book chapters, but no books. Still, that strikes me as a more significant body of work than the average prof. Needs verification as to accuracy of the list and importance of the work. -- BD2412 ^talk July 1, 2005 01:39 (UTC)
• Weak keep based on article, but probably a clearer keep if it would be expanded. His name gets 8,860 Google hits, at least the first few of which all appear to concern the correct SR, and he is a professor at a German university, which automatically puts him a few pinholes above the "average college professor" level. Also: "In 1999 Rahmstorf was awarded the $ 1 million Centennial Fellowship Award of the US-based James S. McDonnell foundation."[1] Is that award something they give to anyone? Uppland 1 July 2005 08:22 (UTC)
• Keep - obviously. Mikka, is there some malice in these VFDs? [Also: added some pubs. 9 pubs in Nature/Science is fairly good going]. William M. Connolley 2005-07-01 09:07:11 (UTC).
  • I think there must have been some discussion concerning the criteria for keeping a particular professor, but I can't find it on the Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Policy consensus/Conclusions page. Nor can I find any criteria concerning notability on the Wikipedia:Deletion policy or the Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not pages. So I can't locate a clear policy regarding whether a particular professor should be kept or not. Personally I'm in favor of keeping any pages that are of good quality and have a decent and interesting information content. So I to vote to keep. — RJH 1 July 2005 15:43 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. Notable professor. JamesBurns 2 July 2005 03:17 (UTC)
• Weak keep due to his appearance in Marquis Who's Who. Gamaliel 7 July 2005 01:41 (UTC)

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