Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karl Svozil
It is quite common to discuss deletion of articles created by their subject, so I do not think that the nominator did anything particularly strange in this case. In particular, it is always considered a bad idea to write an article about oneself (). It is also true that we have some articles written by their subject, such as Carl Hewitt. Regarding this particular entry, I think that the main issue is not the ''number'' of hits, but the number of ''citations'' to articles. The first two results of Google scholar http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22K+Svozil+%22&btnG=Search (books) get 107 and 38 citations; the first article gets 31, the second 27 and so on. Now, if we wanted to follow what my friend Uncle G once proposed (which would be ideally the best thing to do), we should read all papers citing Karl Svozil's papers and see what the other authors say about the cited article. Just we do not have enough time for that. On one point Karl is wrong: searching
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Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:VAIN (Wikipedia:Conflict of interest)