Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gunther Eysenbach


 * 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 keep.  Majorly  (o rly?) 17:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Gunther Eysenbach

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Questionably notablility. This page seems to be a vanity article. Google pages on person seem to also be created by him. This biography was created by him -- Wikipedia strongly discourages Autobiography Partex 20:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and userfy. The WP:COI issue is serious, since the content of the article indeed comes from User:Eysen, who is also the subject of the article. However, the content is too well-organized to throw it away, and the user has helped Wikipedia in other ways.  I think userfying (transferring the content to his user page) is the right compromise. YechielMan 01:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. Eysen acknowledged reading WP:COI on talk page, Thanks for pointing out the conflict of interest policies - I agree and will in the future avoid edits in these fields as well as on my own bio., Jan 15th 2007.  Eysen has not editted his own bio since.  &there4; here&hellip;&spades; 07:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Disagree - keep: Regarding notability and the statement "Google pages on person seem to also be created by him." - a Google phrase search for "Gunther Eysenbach" gives actually 41.000+ hits - quite impossible for him to create all these pages himself. In addition, his academic work seems to have been cited more than 1000 times in other scholarly papers . Seems to meet several of the notability criteria for academics (Notability_(academics)). Not sure about the COI issue, but I don't see anything in the current article which couldn't be verified. --East1234 18:47, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * keep GE is notable; some of his recent work is discussed in detail on the Open Access page & related pages & in all articles in the specialty. The article is a little excessive--as indeed are some of the mentions in the other articles, for which another editor  than himself is responsible. I'm not a personal friend & I have not been editing this page, tho I have made small edits to some discussions of his work on other  pages. However ill-advised it was to try to do it himself, the core content is there. :A great many of the ghits are from the many web /blog postings on major lists where his work is mentioned or discussed--some of those are mine. I have clarified things by  removing the self-advertising COI part, where he discussers the significance of his own work.   DGG 04:08, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * definite keep very well-known and influential researcher, even here in Europe --82.210.96.82 12:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per this search Addhoc 12:20, 4 February 2007 (UTC)


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