Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holger Michaelis

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 00:13, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Holger Michaelis

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Fails WP:PROF notability guidelines. (PROD removed without explanation.) czar · · 21:47, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:47, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:47, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SarahStierch (talk) 01:09, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep for now... at least until someone with reasonable skills in German language can sort out the issue of the claimed professor emeritus standing, which is De-Facto proof of notability per ACADEMIC. My German language skills aren't up to the task of chasing down and citing the references, but I did enough research to determine that references proving notability as an academic and/or author appear to exist. [This] list of his works at the German national library go toward notability as an author and/or as an important thinker in German sociology. Also, his status as Professor Emeritus might be supported by info found [Here] Celtechm (talk) 04:14, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Very weak unverified keep There's some text on the web that indicates he was "chair as director for education and formation and as deputy director for the department of sociology", but it's from some Google cache of Facebook spam that may have originated on a wiki of some sort to start with. We need biographical sources to write an article. They are probably in German. Gigs (talk) 20:26, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, KTC (talk) 00:09, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Neither of the two previous keeps describes a valid WP:PROF criterion for keeping the article. "Professor emeritus" merely means that he is a retired professor, and deputy director of a department is far too low of an administrative position. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:28, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm OK with deletion as well, if no one can actually find biographical sources. Gigs (talk) 23:48, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
delete. The meat of the aricle is the section "Academic life". This has only one reference (in German) which verifies only the very trivial fact that Michaelis was a research assistant to Wollmann—and even that is buried in a mere passing mention in a footnote. He has an h-index of only one as far as I can tell by feeding his publications list into Scholar. That is very poor, essentially completely non-notable, although I do not fully trust Scholar to give good results in non-English languages so would be open to persuasion if some further evidence is presented. Spinning Spark 16:26, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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