Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stefan Berger


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The result was   keep.  Sandstein  09:18, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Stefan Berger

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Fails WP:N in general and WP:ACADEMIC in particular. Sulmuesi (talk) 20:55, 20 November 2010 (UTC) : I had 462 results here, but I probably did something wrong. Will you please provide link for cites you mentioned?--Antidiskriminator (talk) 17:02, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Here on European Science Foundation("association of 79 member organisations devoted to scientific research in 30 European countries... ") web site there is a list of positions that Stefan Berger is elected to: Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History, Director of the Manchester Jean-Monnet-Centre of Excellence, one of the co-directors of the Manchester Centre for the Study of Cultural Forms of Modern European Identities (Cultmep), and he is elected by European Science Foundation in 2003. to be Chairman of NHIST programme ("programme is the collaborative effort of more than ninety leading scholars from almost 200 scholars from 31 European countries."). Additionally, full list of his works and its reviews (please check it) is so long, that I have to place only few selected works in the article. I am article's primary author. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 19:03, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment a GS search for 'author:"Stefan Berger" nationalism' gives cites of 27, 26, 24, 8, 5, 3 which does not seem sufficient for WP:prof. Comments? Xxanthippe (talk) 06:51, 22 November 2010 (UTC).
 * I realised what that mean, sorry. In my search it is 45,27,8,3,24,3,2,14,5,19,1,2,2.... I dont know how to interprete this search results (there would be much more results if you type Stephen (German pronountion?) instead of Stefan, but there would also be some results connected with other people), but I am not sure if this search results can provide better insight than such impressive list of works properly published by third party independent publishers. Please take in consideration that his field of interest is not very popular topic (kind of new rational approach to the influence of nationalism on historical works) and that he can not expect too much support of nation-state institutions for his projects, only international institutions like, obviously, European. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 18:45, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:46, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Weak delete. I am not convinced that the F.R.Hist.S. is selective enough to pass WP:PROF. And he has attracted some media attention for his claims that the East Germans interfered in UK union politics but unless there's something else it seems a bit of a case of WP:BIO1E to me. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:26, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep based on his relatively large scholarly output and being in the news more than once. Bearian (talk) 19:00, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep on the basis of the publications: Editor of one of the Blackwell Companions series A companion to nineteenth-century Europe, 1789-1914, which indicates by itself status as an authority in the subject. Additionally, a major scholarly book on German nationalism. published by Arnold/OUP &  in hundreds of WorldCat libraries,,  t  at least 5 other major scholarly books in English by some of the most important publishers, and a similar number published only in German . Multiple reviews of at least some of the books.  This is fully enough for notability as an academic or as an author. In fact, almost all senior academics  in the humanities at major universities will meet WP:AUTHOR.  Additionally, full professor at Manchester, one of the greatest university history departments in the world.   DGG ( talk ) 05:56, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep in view of above findings. Xxanthippe (talk) 08:38, 5 December 2010 (UTC).
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