Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karl Schappeller


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The result was delete. "I like it" is not a reason to keep an article. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 20:29, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Karl Schappeller

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Disreputable sources, lack of verifiability, probable original research, and so on. The typical pseudoscience article on some random person's aether theory. Philosophus T 18:07, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak delete Sounds similar to vril, only more obscure. Could be notable as pseudoscience history, but I don't see any reliable sources here. Brianyoumans 00:41, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete in the absence of reliable sources indicating that these ideas, while provably incorrect, at least influenced other human minds. Anville 22:27, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Actually, I have a soft spot for articles about quacks like Schappeller and as far as I know, he was rather "influential" before WWII. At least he became rather wealthy by his follower's donations. However, in contrast with Vril or Nazi Ufos there seems to exist no reputable english-language source. Among the few I know of is Henry Steven's book on German Flying Saucers the most prominent one, but his writings are more than questionable, and the same is true for the rest of the english sources which I know. On the other hand, the only german-language source I know of which seems to be halfway reputable is out of print for ten years and I wasn't able to get it via libraries. Otherwise I would have done a revision of this article by myself. Maybe, it would be wise to mention him in a WP-list of quacks or pseudoscientists but in the moment, I see no practicable way to write a stand-alone article about him that would fit the WP-standards. Crypto-ffm 14:23, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Rescue. Me likes this. ~ Flameviper 22:16, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


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