Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bernward Joerges
One does not become a professor at a German university unless one is already a researcher of some note. German professors are by definition more notable than "|the average college professor" in U.S. terms. I find eight books (co-)authored or (co-)edited by him in the ''Swedish'' national library catalogue, using only the full name (Joerges,Bernward)http://websok.libris.kb.se/websearch/search?SEARCH_PERS=Joerges,+Bernward, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=%22b+joerges%22+OR+%22joerges%2C+b%22+OR+%22Joerges%2C+Bernward%22+OR+%22Bernward+Joerges%22&btnG=Search 329 hits in Google Scholar, allowing for hits using only the first name initial, and http://books.google.com/books?q=%22b+joerges%22+OR+%22joerges%2C+b%22+OR+%22Joerges%2C+Bernward%22+OR+%22Bernward+Joerges%22&btnG=Search+Books&hl=en 770 page hits on Google Books for the same search. This is not Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein, but as long as we keep any 19-year old who gets payed to play baseball or soccer, any obscure musical artist with a couple of albums, or any actor with a few roles on IMDB, not to speak of various fictional characters from video games, a real professorship at a research university is a very reasonable claim to notability for academics. If the article is to be deleted because of lack of content, we should be consistent and do that with obscure professional baseball players as well (and ''that'' will never happen, as you all well know
— User:Uppland, 10:07, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)