Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Søren Ventegodt

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The result was delete. Kevin (talk) 23:52, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Søren Ventegodt

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promotional article with serious BLP problems. Might be notable , but rescuing this one is more than I am willing to attempt & I don't think it's worth it. DGG ( talk ) 18:08, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:03, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:04, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:04, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete. On the one hand, there are a lot of news stories about him. On the other hand, the existing article seems like a gross violation of WP:NPOV and sorting it all out looks like a nightmare. He seems to be notable less as a practitioner of holistic medicine than for his legal complications, and it's not obvious to me that he passes WP:PERP. The sensitivity of the subject matter and WP:BLP probably require someone who speaks Danish to work on the article, who will also (unlike whoever put together the existing article) maintain a neutral treatment of the subject, and who would that be? We're probably better off just staying out of it. In any case, deleting this version and starting fresh seems clearly better to me than trying to use it for anything. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:11, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Possible Speedy delete as a copyvio. The biography portion, at least, seems to have been copied from here with minimal changes. --MelanieN (talk) 15:56, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I note that the Danish Wikipedia has an article on him [1], but it is much shorter and better sourced. Maybe an article based on the Danish version could be acceptable here. I agree with David Eppstein's approach: delete this whole mess, and possibly start fresh. --MelanieN (talk) 15:57, 3 May 2012 (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.