Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ulf Strohmayer


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The result was delete. Davewild (talk) 18:30, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Ulf Strohmayer

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There are an OK number of GScholar hits, but it doesn't quite add up to WP:PROF or WP:GNG for me. Has been tagged for notability for over 7 years; hopefully we can get it resolved one way or another now. Boleyn (talk) 12:18, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete. His top-cited work, "Space and Social Theory" (about which I also found a couple of book reviews ) is an edited volume, a type of publication we generally give less credit for (or require stronger evidence of notability, to put it more positively). His remaining citation counts on Google scholar, 44, 22, 17, 17, etc, are not enough to convince me of a pass of WP:PROF. And what else is there? —David Eppstein (talk) 04:03, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 01:37, 22 June 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment I remember stumbling upon a small entry on him in some encyclopedia-like book some years ago. However, I can't find the title at the moment, and I was generally puzzled by its choice of entries ( no Torsten Hägerstrand, for example ), so I wouldn't consider it a good reference anyways. I know where I could find the physical copy (Frankfurt University Library), but it's probably not worth the effort. Axolotl Nr.733 (talk) 20:58, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

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 * Delete. Academic who lacks substantial coverage from independent, reliable sources to demonstrate notability. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 22:19, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete So I finally went to my alma mater's library and found the book: Encyclopaedic biography of world great geographists, by Chandra Dip Singh. This revision of the article is a direct copy of Strohmayer's entry there, and considering it was edited by user "Strohmayer" about one year before the book was published, I'd say both entries are written by Ulf Strohmayer himself. Btw, I was wrong about Hägerstrand (there is an entry on him in that encyclopedia), but there're still some "geographists" (sic) missing from the book who I'd consider much more important than Strohmayer. Axolotl Nr.733 (talk) 21:15, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Or maybe I should assume the obvious: That this book actually contains copies of WP articles. I'm going to ask someone in the German WP to check the book in the Frankfurt university library. Axolotl Nr.733 (talk) 06:51, 6 July 2015 (UTC)


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