Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thorsten J. Pattberg
I was unable to verify even his claimed affiliations with Peking U. and U. Tokyo, let alone any evidence of academic impact. (The article included an abstract from http://www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp/shukyobunka/IACM/SpeakersandAbstracts.html a conference that mentions the Peking affiliation but that seems close to a self-published source to me; I'd be happier with some evidence of his existence on the pku.edu.cn and hi.u-tokyo.ac.jp web sites, but Google comes up blank. Regardless, he seems to fail 
— User:David, 06:41, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)