Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Mayer

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Richard Mayer
Vanity. Contributing to German Wikipedia does not make one notable. Can someone who speaks the language please confirm the claim, with references, that he identified and labeled a species of turtle? I only turn up links which appear to originate from his German Wikipedia article. GRider\talk 00:03, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Can't this be speedied as vanity? --nixie 02:37, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Userfy, he's an editor on Wikipedia. There are about two dozen Google hits in German on his research but there is probably not enough at the moment to make him notable in his own right. Megan1967 04:27, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, do field work in botany or zoology, you will stumble across a new sub-species. Wyss 19:09, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment can anyone produce the list of books to help us make an informed decision. Johntex 21:48, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nonnotable. I do wonder why there's an accuracy dispute tag on the article when there's no talk page for it. AFAIK his publications consist of two books: Europäische Landschildkröten ("European tortoises") and Das Buch der immergrünen Laubbäume und Sträucher ("The book of evergreen deciduous trees and shrubs"), photos of both of which are shown at his de: user talk page. I tried looking at amazon.de for more books of his, but Richard Mayer is a common enough name in German to make it difficult to be sure if any other books are his. Anyway, I think "several German-language books on tortoises" is an overstatement. He's also got a website which seems to consist entirely of photos of buildings and landscapes with big clay heads photoshopped into them, and tortoises. I found some pages citing "Mayer 1992" as the source for the identification of his subspecies of marginated tortoise, but unfortunately none of them included a reference list to tell us what "Mayer 1992" is. Maybe Europäische Landschildkröten? Unfortunately Amazon doesn't know the year that book was published, and the publisher's website has no record of it. --Angr 08:44, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * delete Yuckfoo 03:44, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)