Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walter Hilgers
The existing article seems promotional and uses none of the resources provided by its equivalent on de.wiki. Still, I don't think the case is as obvious as it might at first appear. I agree that he doesn't meet  but I have my doubt about the SNGs cited by the nominator. For criterion No. 5 of , subjects need to be named chairs or distinguished professors. In countries were these don't exist, an equivalent position works as well. In Germany, the full Professorship is the highest academic rank and is roughly equivalent to a named chair in the US. Since this subject is a professor in the German sense, I think his article should be kept under . Perhaps we might want to object that his university is insignificant. This is not the case: he works at the leading institution for the study of music in the state of Thuringia. This case reminds me of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carl Ueter|this AfD, where consensus determined that a similar set of circumstances was enough to satisfy . With all that said, his article needs to be completely revamped, but there are a number of reliable sources available in German
— User:Modussiccandi, 21:49, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)