Deletion of Piotr Blass

Comment: There's a lot of name-dropping that still needs to be removed and unsourced material needs to be expunged also, per Wikipedia policy (erifiability).  What will be left after all that is a bio with some basic background on family, education, etc., references to Zariski surface, and possibly the Zeosync stuff and political campaigning stuff.  With all this other non-mathematical stuff, it seems there is enough notability (notoriety?) to establish a keep vote.  However, I really have no wish to keep a bio that is mainly kept because of minor scandals of dubious notability or verifiability.  Additionally, Blass' mathematical notability was marginal anyway; it's no real loss or gain to have this mathematician's bio or not.  As others have commented, it may just be too much trouble.  After all, don't we have better things to do than patrol this page with the goal of what, not improving the article (since there's not really much potential in it), but instead with the goal of keeping it trimmed down to a stub or semi-stub?  That's really the problem with these marginal mathematician bios.  Most of the time, people say "keep" because they don't see the harm in it, and there is some marginal notability.  In this case, we have the subject insisting on spending his free time changing the article to his blog/webpage.  It's really too much trouble to bother with, I would think
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)

Comment: I don't see a valid reason for deletion. Most comments refer to , however, this guideline says "vanity by itself is not a basis for deletion, but lack of assertion of importance is". According to Zentralblatt MATH, review 1028.14006, Piotr Blass did introduce the notion of Zariski surface, which is important enough that we have an article about it. If that had been all described in the article, then the article would clearly have been kept, showing that he's passed the notability threshold. By the way, an IP editor cleaned up the article
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:VAIN)

Comment: Seems somewhat notable as a politician, and as a mathematician. Vanity and/or unfamiliarity with Wikipedia procedures are no reasons for deletion if the subject is notable. His research in Zariski surface seems somewhat notabale, and this compunded with being a candidate for an important election makes him notable in my book. Claims for work on early Internet and being an advisor/close coworker of some famous people, while they would make him clearly notable, need independent sources, but even without them I think he fits the borderline claim for notability. See also Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#Piotr_Blass, and consider  and &E
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:C)

Comment: per  as blatant self-promotion (he even mirrors this self-written article on himself on his own campaign website http://piotrblass.com/html/wikipedia.html!). Also an utterly embarrassing case of name-dropping (note also his recent edit to Adam Michnik.) No notability as a politician whatsoever (and the sheer lack of professionalism in this effort as well as the dumb campaign design do not promise great things for the future). If he is notable in the field of mathematics (on which I am no expert), he really should have the patience to wait until one of his colleagues or students writes an article about him. The keep vote by Piotrus ("seems (!) somewhat (!!) notable") appears to be somewhat sentimentally motivated, for a namesake and a (former) compatriot
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:VAIN)

Comment: Ignoring for the sake of argument the blatant  violations, he has had a few papers published, and so the existence of an article might be borderline acceptable (note that I said ''borderline'').  But since it's all written by the subject, and he insists on putting ridiculous claims that border on vandalism (you and Al Gore#The Internet and the Webbys|Al Gore should hang out together), it's just not worth the trouble
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:VAIN)