Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oskar Kuhn


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The result was   keep. JForget 00:21, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Oskar Kuhn

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The article consists of 6 words describing the subject along with a list of books. This seems insufficient to establish that this individual meets WP:AUTHOR or WP:ACADEMIC. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 14:44, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep The page also includes a link to his academic biography at University of Halle-Wittenberg (German language). Amazon.de also shows his books still in print. And the informative "What links here" on the English Wikipedia shows that he is being used as an authority in the articles on various dinosaurs. So an article for expansion, not deletion. AllyD (talk) 17:28, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete: While this Palaeontologist does have notability in their field (and wikilinks pointing at him), I'm not seeing a reason for a BLP article. It should be noted that the content of the article (except for adding 1 additional book and minor patrol changes) has been the same since April 1st 2005 and registered to various projects without getting any substantive additions. Hasteur (talk) 23:56, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * If someone is a notable paleontologist, that is a reason to include an article about that person. As for being a BLP, that is highly unlikely. The German ref given in the article states that he was born in 1908. That would make him 102 by now. Nsk92 (talk) 04:06, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * In fact, according to this, it appears that he died in 1990. Nsk92 (talk) 04:14, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep 17,500 refs on google scholar; first editor of notable Handbook of Paleoichthyology -- clear notability. Bigdaddy1981 (talk) 00:14, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't challenge the number of refs, but I'm having trouble seeing it. Can you provide a link to the results that show the 17,500 refs on google scholar?  The scholar link above shows 172.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 14:45, 11 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep Clear notability based on number of references, etc. --Boson (talk) 14:18, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per AllyD. Tomas e (talk) 12:26, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep: notable.  Dewritech (talk)  14:28, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, although with a little hesitation. For somebody in academia who worked primarily before the internet age, I'd usually want to see more explicit evidence of specific biographical coverage, even for WP:PROF cases. However, here the googlebooks results are quite significant, even allowing for a portion of false positives. He was a co-editor of a multi-volume encyclopedia. Also, his collected papers were published in 1959, presumably upon retirement; this usually indicates a significant degree of academic notability. The entry could certainly use the attention of an expert, but I think we can be reasonably sure that the subject was indeed a notable academic. So passes WP:PROF, in my opinion. Nsk92 (talk) 16:04, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, author of a number of important German books on Paleontology. Initiated and wrote some of the Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology, an important multi-volume textbook on fossil reptiles and amphibians).  Check Google Books and Google Scholar for a range of references, which show academic notability.  I concede the wiki page itself is stubby, but the solution there is to add more material, not deletion of the whole entry M Alan Kazlev (talk) 01:41, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. I explored the sources I could access online and filled out the article with a short bio. In addition to being called influential and having been demonstrably so in his publications, particularly the Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology, he turns out to be frequently referred to as influential in the struggle between systematic and idealistic morphology in the German universities; that is to say, his views on evolution are referred to as part of the back story on Intelligent Design, especially since he was so eminent.Yngvadottir (talk) 22:41, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep notable, if not very. &mdash;innotata 18:46, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
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