Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gunter Teuffel

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep (non-admin). Gary King (talk) 20:14, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gunter Teuffel

Questionable notability. Over 2400 Google hits, mostly related to downloads or viola performances, except for two websites from which article content is sourced (see talk page). I was going to nominate it for speedy deletion under CSD A7, but I wasn't sure whether or not the sentence "He got the 'Würdigungspreis des Österreichischen Ministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kultur'." was an attempt at indicating importance. Also see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norbert Kaiser for a related discussion. Cheers. – Liveste (talk • edits) 01:40, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Another curriculum vitae entry. I'm sure he's an outstanding musician, and anyone achieving such a status is better than any of us will be, but every symphony has a principal soloist, and every orchestra has top flight people. Take all the symphonies and orchestras in the world, then take each member every year for the last 200 years, and you have such a pile of names with the same accomplishments that you have no meaning. No biography, no notability against the background of other top rank musicians. Utgard Loki (talk) 18:11, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep if sourced. the principal chair in a notable orchestra is of course notable, so the question is whether this orchestra (SWR Radiosinfonieorchesters Stuttgart) is sufficiently important. (In fact, I'd say that being any regular member in a really major orchestra is notable. Its essentially the top of the profession), The number of such distinguished people is not a problem, if the articles can be written. One hundred orchestras times 100 musicians is a trivial amount of server space. We just need people to write the articles, --and of course, find at least basic sourcing--what we need to do is to get the interested people to write better articles. As for the academic side, it would depend on the importance of State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, which I think is very considerable indeed--considering it gives a doctorate. He is actually a professor there. [1] DGG (talk) 22:25, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I notified the Classical Music wikiproject, as i am not an expert. DGG (talk) 22:31, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I agree with DGG's assessment of Teuffel's notability. The article needs to be expanded (a proper lead would be a good start) and sourced; however, those shortcomings do not justify its deletion — SoFixIt instead. Michael Bednarek (talk) 00:51, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - it appears that he is being singled out in reviews such as this one. There's a lot of German rsults in Google news which might be indicative of notability but I can't read German. -- Whpq (talk) 18:39, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.