Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arne Kaijser


 * 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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was KEEP. &mdash; J I P | Talk 05:24, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Arne Kaijser
I am not convinced Arne passes the average professor test. If the article were created today I'd be tempted to speedy it for not making any assertion of notability - however this article has been around since 19 May 2001 and has attracted only 4 minor edits since then, including the Conversion script and my addition of the afd tag (the first edit in over a year). There are a grand total of two inbound links.

Because of its age this article has been picked up by just about every Wikipedia mirror site going, making raw google hit numbers irrelevant. Almost all the other hits seem to be directory type listings. The lack of an interwiki to the Sweedish Wikipedia makes me doubt he is significantly more notable in that language, but my knowledge of Sweedish extends to one word - Igelkott (Hedgehog) - so I cannot say. Thryduulf 22:22, 1 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Wow, the weird things one finds in Wiki-land. Keep -- since the article has been here forever, I give it the benefit of the doubt and presume it is notable.  As nom. suggests, its age also makes it unclear what set of criteria to apply to judge it.  Absent a positive case that this fellow is non-notable, I think such an established, if obscure, article does no harm in remaining.  Credit to nom. for even finding it, though. Xoloz 09:26, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I deserve no credit for finding it, I arrived there via the random article link while playing with Kate's Six Degrees of Wikipedia tool. Thryduulf 11:06, 2 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I have managed to find some more information about him, but I can't tell if he's notable or not. // Liftarn


 * Keep, professor at one of the leading technical universities in Europe. Kappa 23:56, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not every single one of the professors in the world are notable. Gamaliel 03:45, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Very true. Nor has any other known professor been here since 19 May 2001. Xoloz 05:30, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, professor - and head of a department - at a major university of technology, author/co-author of several books, and member of the editorial board of two scientific publications. Seems to pass the average professor test. / Alarm 17:24, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * If all this is true, why isn't it in the article? Gamaliel 18:51, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Because no one had added it. Until now. / Alarm 12:45, 5 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep per Alarm. -- DS1953 03:00, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Alarm CLW 08:58, 7 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.