Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claus Peter Poppe
A proposal for the bulk deletion of almost three thousand articles has to be much more convincing than this is.  I cannot countenance a drastic expansion of |living person biography policy such that it would compass the deletion of ''any article that might be vandalized in the future'', which seems to be the apparent concern.  Even the http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Biographies_of_living_people Wikimedia Foundation resolution that underlies BLP policy observes that "(p)eople sometimes vandalize articles about living people. The Wikimedia community has developed tools and techniques for counteracting vandalism: in general they seem to work reasonably well."   And, since |Wikipedia is not paper, any political figure notable in the German language is also notable in English.  It seems that people are becoming too timid rather than |bold in the creation of new content, if an adequate article of a politician on a foreign language edition does not make a ''prima facie'' case for a translation of that article in English.I'd suggest that a bulk deletion of these 3000 articles be first mooted on the German Wikipedia.  See how that flies.  If inadequacy of references, BLP concerns, or lack of notability leads to the deletion of the original articles in German, I'd defer to the German Wikipedia's conclusions and delete only those articles.  But I doubt that a similar proposal for bulk deletion of material would sit well there.  It shouldn't sit well here either
— User:Ihcoyc, 14:22, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BLP||WP:NOTPAPER||WP:BOLD (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)