Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mathias Bröckers
He is a bestselling author, and is famous/notorious (depending on your POV) in Germany for his conspiracy theories and advocating hemp legalization for ''industrial'' purposes. He has published at least 20 books over 20 years. http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=4.1/REL?PPN=120527804 http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=4.1/LNG=DU/LRSET=1/SET=1/SID=330eaf6c-c/TTL=1/NXT?FRST=11 He was a journalist and features editor for Die tageszeitung (taz) in the 1980s, before taz started its online service. He also wrote a http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=4.1/SET=1/TTL=11/SHW?FRST=20 book about that newspaper. He is regarded as an expert on cannabis (no sniggering please :-p). He promoted the legalization of hemp growing and he has written a lot of books about cannabis, and one about Albert Hofmann. http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=889293 Here is an article in ''Der Standard'' about Brocker's research into cannabis. I also read that he established the first business in Germany that distributed hemp products, but I can't find a good source for this fact. His 9/11 book ''Verschwörungen, Verschwörungstheorien und die Geheimnisse des 11.9'' is a best-seller and has sold 100,000 copies in Germany http://www.europeanfoundation.org/docs/177id.htm and has been translated into English. http://www.welt.de/data/2002/09/07/443422.html Here is a very negative review of the book in ''Die Welt''. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/20/wbulo20.xml This piece in the ''The Daily Telegraph|Telegraph'' says that his book is on the German bestseller list. Here is a recent article by him called http://www.fr-aktuell.de/startseite/9/11_spezial/?em_cnt=965176 "Confessions of a Conspiracy Theorist" in ''Frankfurter Rundschau'', and an interview with him in http://www.taz.de/pt/2003/07/02/a0089.1/text ''die tageszeitung'', all mainstream newspapers. http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,265160-3,00.html Here is an extremely negative view of him in ''Der Spiegel'' (in English). http://www.welt.de/data/2006/09/13/1034950.html This article is very negative about his research methods. http://www.welt.de/z/search/index.php/welt_advanced_search?count=10&action=welt_advanced_search&q=Mathias+Br%F6ckers&ds=date&search.x=9&search.y=2 Here are more articles (about 14) in ''Die Welt'' that mention him. I think this is enough to meet  and . My German isn't great, but I can add the sources to the article over the next few days
— User:Blathnaid, 11:40, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:V||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Verifiability)