Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walter Keim

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was DELETE. (1) Counting the nominator, and discounting puppets, the raw count is 4-2 Delete. (2) The strength of argument clearly favors Delete, in my opinion. The guy is certainly not notable as an academic, at least going by the article, and his activisim doesn't appear to reach the threshold of notability. Herostratus 03:36, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Walter Keim

Vanity page of junior academic (Assistant Prof is usually the bottom rung). No indication whatsoever of notability as an academic, as his research (if any) is not even mentioned. Thinks Wikipedia is his soapbox for some beef he has with the courts, along with Richard Albrecht, whom I have also nominated. Watch out for crude attempts at voting vandalism by anon sockpuppets---just happened on Albrecht. Leibniz 10:40, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

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  • Beware of pickpockets, tricksters, and academic swindlers, whether they may have got a Ph.D. or not, name themselves today Leibniz or Keks [[1]]], tomorrow Nietzsche or Bahlsen. Moreover, please, look at [[2]], [[3]], and tell me whether this man should be a representative of the en-wikipedia-community any longer, or not; su, ma.beauty1atgmx.net 80.136.127.41 22:07, 24 August 2006 (UTC)


  • Commentary There´s a very deletion-specialist self-naming “Leibniz” like that Good Old German Philosopher;-): please, do stop this chap: he´s a potential runners amok. -M. Falke, 060823
* That establishes he is some random guy who likes to sue a lot. Not notable. Leibniz 14:43, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. Vain minor academic on the hunt for kostenlos self-promotion. Pathlessdesert 11:24, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Can be evaluated and completed, taking esp. into account his civil right activities: freedom of information, patient right, fighting against any remake of German “Berufsverbot(e)”. - Nominator´s again speedy Leibniz - monkey business noising round for sock- and meatpuppets: three cheers for this chap – true believer ? prevented censor ? demiurgue of hazardous waste ? -, and lot of cigars, dollars, dreams, and dollies … M. Eser, Aug. 22, 2006— Possible single purpose account: 80.136.121.85 (talk • contribs) has made little or no other contributions outside this topic.
  • Keep Keim, Delete Leibnítz - the only way to cut the Gordian knot. M.Falke — Possible single purpose account: 80.136.78.206 (talk • contribs) has made little or no other contributions outside this topic.
  • Delete No evidence of notability per WP:BIO or WP:PROF. Article is more expansive than the German one [4], it ought to be the otherway around, but that would make this a sub-stub. I'd need to see two independent reliable sources that I can read to establish notability in my eyes. Instead we see one source in a foreign language that I am not competent to judge whether it is either independent or reliable. GRBerry 02:00, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per TruthbringerToronto's comment. Aye-Aye 17:20, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: freedominfo.org[5] "one-stop portal for critical resources about freedom of information laws and movements around the world" mentions Keim as "expert on Freedom of Information in Germany" and has 4 links to his work. I have no account and sign with 4 tildes. 85.167.175.70 17:50, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, according to the article his most notable achievements are being an internet activist (which doesn't take much effort) and starting a geocities website along with 3 other people. I don't think that quite cuts it per WP:BIO. - Bobet 17:34, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.