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Volkmar Weiss

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This figure does not appear to be notable per WP:PROF. The article describes him as a scientist but he does not appear to have ever held an academic position (his personal website [1] describes him as a "psychohistorian" and his German-language Wiki [2] states that he worked as an administrator for the German Central Office for Genealogy from the time of his habilitation until his retirement in 2008). His publication record appears to fall far short of notability as well. Further, I have not found any English-language WP:RS secondary sources discussing him. His website lists a 2002 book review in Personality and Individual Differences but I cannot locate the review in that journal's archive (or anywhere through numerous Google searches). Even if it does exist, one such review would not establish notability. Generalrelative (talk) 22:24, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NightHeron: The German-language Wiki states that he was Mitherausgeber (literally "co-editor", though apparently this can simply mean that he was a member of an editorial panel) of Mankind Quarterly until 2015. It may be worth emphasizing that criterion 8 of WP:PROF is only satisfied when the subject has been the head or chief editor of a major, well-established academic journal in their subject area, which Mankind Quarterly is clearly not. Generalrelative (talk) 01:13, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:31, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:31, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:34, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The BLP gives no significant evidence of notability. The closest is the statement that VW's arguments were used in a chapter of a book (Germany Abolishes Itself) that was very popular among German rightists. He seems to be mainly a minor promoter of fringe views, and the article lists the white supremacist journal Mankind Quarterly as his "Co-publisher" (perhaps a mistranslation from German). NightHeron (talk) 23:50, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 This figure does not appear to be notable per [[WP:PROF]]. The article describes him as a scientist but he does not appear to have ever held an academic position (his personal website [http://www.v-weiss.de/publ-e.html] describes him as a "psychohistorian" and his German-language Wiki [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkmar_Weiss] states that he worked as an administrator for the German Central Office for Genealogy from the time of his ''[[habilitation]]'' until his retirement in 2008). His publication record appears to fall far short of notability as well. Further, I have not found any English-language [[WP:RS]] secondary sources discussing him. His website lists a 2002 book review in ''Personality and Individual Differences'' but I cannot locate the review in that journal's archive (or anywhere through numerous Google searches). Even if it does exist, one such review would not establish notability. [[User:Generalrelative|Generalrelative]] ([[User talk:Generalrelative|talk]]) 22:24, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
-:{{re|NightHeron}} The German-language Wiki states that he was ''Mitherausgeber'' (literally "co-editor", though apparently this can simply mean that he was a member of an editorial panel) of Mankind Quarterly until 2015. It may be worth emphasizing that criterion 8 of [[WP:PROF]] is only satisfied when the subject {{tq|has been the head or chief editor of a '''major, well-established academic journal''' in their subject area}} (emphasis added), which Mankind Quarterly is clearly not. [[User:Generalrelative|Generalrelative]] ([[User talk:Generalrelative|talk]]) 01:13, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
+:{{re|NightHeron}} The German-language Wiki states that he was ''Mitherausgeber'' (literally "co-editor", though apparently this can simply mean that he was a member of an editorial panel) of Mankind Quarterly until 2015. It may be worth emphasizing that criterion 8 of [[WP:PROF]] is only satisfied when the subject {{tq|has been the head or chief editor of a major, well-established academic journal in their subject area}}, which Mankind Quarterly is clearly not. [[User:Generalrelative|Generalrelative]] ([[User talk:Generalrelative|talk]]) 01:13, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 :<small class="delsort-notice">Note:  This discussion has been included in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Authors|list of Authors-related deletion discussions]]. [[User:CAPTAIN RAJU|<span style="font-family: Bradley Hand ITC;">'''CAPTAIN RAJU'''</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:CAPTAIN RAJU|(T)]]</sup> 22:31, 6 December 2020 (UTC)</small>
 :<small class="delsort-notice">Note:  This discussion has been included in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Germany|list of Germany-related deletion discussions]]. [[User:CAPTAIN RAJU|<span style="font-family: Bradley Hand ITC;">'''CAPTAIN RAJU'''</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:CAPTAIN RAJU|(T)]]</sup> 22:31, 6 December 2020 (UTC)</small>