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Self-written vanity page; don't see how this meets WP:PROF. Reads more like an academic CV, no indication that this individual is particularly notable within their field. See also this afd. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:29, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep – this article has been the subject of an earlier AfD, and the result was "keep". The author, despite his somewhat irritating self promotional tendencies, is in fact notable, as more careful searches establish. He is also the inventor of the EcoSCOPE. The article needs rewriting to remove the "vanity", but this is not a place to punish such behaviour with an inappropriate deletion. --Geronimo20 (talk) 23:42, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Although he is perhaps more notable as an innovator and photographer than as an academic, Google Scholar nonetheless credits one of his papers with 114 citations. He is well represented in Google Books.--Geronimo20 (talk) 00:21, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:25, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. I'm not impressed by the quality of the previous discussion. The deletes are mostly "vanity" and "non-notable" without any elaboration and the keeps are mostly "verifiable" and "notable" without any elaboration. It looks more like a vote than a discussion. I think that, rather than relying on precedent, we should come to a fresh consensus on whether he passes WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:29, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Agree that the previous discussion was from an earlier time (it was a VfD) and should probably be ignored. Also agree that the subject is a shameless self promoter. He probably should be encouraged not to edit his own article or articles where a COI would be too great of a temptation for him. However, regarding "subject of significant coverage in independent reliable secondary sources" this the biography clearly meets. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 20:31, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak keep on basis of GS as much of the self-promotion has been pruned. Delete on further consideration. Xxanthippe (talk) 03:24, 29 November 2009 (UTC).[reply]
    • Comment Can someone point out an example of third party reliable source coverage? Nearly all of the references are to papers written by Kils. The prizes/awards may be of note, but I'm not sure how notable these particular awards are. I do know that research awards are not uncommon. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:32, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
we donated thousands of photographs and i editied thousands. i donated over 40 000 dollar anoumously over the years. it would be nice if you have the entry alive, so my grandchildren and former students could find me. i shut down all other accounts. you can cut it down to 5 lines no picture. it would be nice if the categories stay.
best greetings and good luck to wikipedia, which is the greatest on the planet (see my endorsements on user kils, my gallery there and my gallery on commons user uwe kils
http://web.archive.org/web/20010803121250/krill.rutgers.edu/uwe/
Professor Dr. habil.habil. u. k.
user kils Uwe Kils
  • Strong Keep - kils was a great professor, worked all over the world, has many international recognized prizes, cared for the week, donated millions, was an inventer and is still one of the most gifted photographers and filmmaker of the planet, just cut the article down as much as you like. Vikings (talk)
Commment Third party reliable sources supporting these statements? OhNoitsJamie Talk 00:34, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - hallo itsJamie. you can click on "credentials" and "studenten Bewertung" (student evaluation". the original files you can get fron RUTGERS UNIVERSITY) on http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Kurs:Biologie_der_Antarktis, for the "meier leibnitz prize" there is a link to "german science foundation", we contacted german ministery for science and technology (BMFT) long time ago for proof of the "heisenberg prize". you can contact them. you can contact shaw distinguised professor rudi strickler great lakes water studies http://www.glwi.uwm.edu/profiles/jrs/ - he wrote on the occasion to invite uwe to the usa "he is at least 10 years ahaed, inclusive my laboratory". or contact his doctor father gotthilf hempel, he wrote "kils has much more in store than he published" there is a publication out on the web as pdf file wher the author describes wikipedia and is astonished that there are articles with high resolution images and mentions Professor kils and his page on plankton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankton. he has hundredths of photo and science prizes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kils, see his gallery on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kils/gallery and on commens http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Uwe_kils/gallery. :
    Salmon fry hatching - the larva has grown around the remains of the yolk - visible are the arteries spinning around the yolk and little oildrops, also the gut, the spine, the main caudal blood vessel, the bladder and the arcs of the gills
The Visual Side of Wikipedia
Fernanda B. Viégas
Visual Communication Lab, IBM Research
viegasf@us.ibm.com
http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/papers/viegas_hicss_visual_wikipedia.pdf
"But wait. This is Wikipedia, an online free

encyclopedia created entirely by volunteers. How is it possible that volunteers could have produced such equipment-heavy, scientifically-exact, high quality images of microscopic life forms? This is where Uwe Kils comes in. Dr. Kils is an associate professor of planktology in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, at Rutgers University. A few years ago, he was asked to donate one of his images of plankton to Wikipedia. He liked the project so much that he decided to donate over two hundred of his scientific images to the encyclopedia [10]. Like Dr. Kils, there are thousands of Wikipedia users around the world that contribute images to the encyclopedia. In fact, some of these users contribute to the encyclopedia mainly as image creators and as image foragers. For them, illustrating articles is the most energizing aspect of being part of Wikipedia. With just over 9% of heavily-edited articles containing images, the encyclopedia still has a long way to go until most topics that can benefit from images are visually represented. Nevertheless, with the “Image” namespace of Wikipedia being one of the fastest growing sections of the site [8], it seems like pictures are becoming an essential part of the project. This paper investigates the world of Wikipedia image contributors today. What kinds of images do they contribute? What are their motivations? How do they create their images? How are image contributions different from their textual counterparts? How does collaborating around visual materials change the way editors interact on Wikipedia? To explore these questions, this paper describes the results of a survey of image contributors as well as an analysis of the documentation on image creation and usage on Wikipedia. The results present an initial snapshot of the visual side of the online encyclopedia. 2. Related Work Various aspects of Wikipedia have attracted the attention of academics. Studies have examined the motivation of volunteers to contribute [1][3], the evolution of article editing trends [7], the reliability of information found on the site [5], and the evolution of the site itself [8]. This growing body of work has shed light on some of the strengths and weaknesses of the site. In a study that compared Wikipedia and Everything2 articles on the same topics, Emigh and Herring [2] found that Wikipedia entries are stylistically

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Tomopteriskils.jpg

Figure 1: Image of a Tomopterus, by Prof. Uwe Kils. Photograph donated to Wikipedia by the author. similar to traditional, printed sources such as the expert-created Columbia Encyclopedia, in terms of formality and language standardization. They attribute this phenomenon to the high degree of post-production editorial control afforded by Wikipedia—for instance, the ability to easily edit other’s entries."

some editor even took off his image from fisheries biology before the vote was done. uwe and his photographers and models like mikki uploaded over 8000 photographs and donated over 40 000 dollars. uwe is extreme angry, such a treatment he has never experienced in his whole life. beeing banned for a week only for asking to put the right author tags on six of our high resolution photographs. copyright violation is a crime, also in the usa. he had to fight with editors who did not disclose their name nor education nor books nor publicatiions. uwe wrote over 300 publications 30 books, raised 500 students, all but dr. thethmeier, dr. waller live outside germany and are millionaires, most billionaires and over 20 000 over internet. uwes secretary chandra will email you soon. have a nice day user oceanographer Vikings (talk) 09:59, 1 December 2009 (UTC) This template must be substituted.[reply]

  • Strong Keep - at the age of 18 he studied informatics, at 19 he wrote three image programs, one for realtors, one for stockbrokers, one for physicians. he advertised them in manhattan and dubai. they sold over 200 000 times. after this year he returned a rich men and could have stopped working.. his dream was to study marine biology. he travelled to all famous institutes. kiel germany was that time the best and biggest. at 28 he was invited to participate in an antarctic expedition and take the photo documentation. at age 29 he got his dr. title with "summa cum laude" and "opus eximium". a few days later his dissertation was translated by the international centre of antarctic research at texas a & m university by professor sayed elsayed and printed as book. it found mention as book review in scar and was sold out all over the world in 5 months.uwe did not give away the copyright so he can serve it to poor schools in the 3rd world. His incredible (over 40 000) photographs found mention in an article about wikipedia http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/papers/viegas_hicss_visual_wikipedia.pdf
and in SCIENCE http://ecoscope.com/science/index.htm
responsible for this page
professor sylvia klein
user sylvia klein
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  • Keep So far as I can see from the article he is of note. Rather more so than the Assistant Professors of Economics (appointed in 2007) and so on that we get. This looks like achievement, not puff. Can I just suggest that the supporters keep their contributions here well below dissertation length - if they're short and sharp more people will read them. And someone can take care of that 'citation needed', I hope. Peridon (talk) 18:42, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • strong Keep

all is true and reliable. just check the sources or contact professor Dr Dr. h.c. gotthilf hempel or shaw distinguished professor dr. rudi strickler or the white house Oceanographer (talk) 09:43, 2 December 2009 (UTC) This template must be substituted.[reply]

  • strong Keep

His students love him: "The teacher was excellent, funny + entertaining as well as informative + intellectual - the computer Interaction!", " This was the best class I've taken at RUTGERS so far.", "I enjoyed the enthusiasm with with Uwe gave the lectures. Once Uwe started his lectures, three hours went by in five minutes.", "This was my favourite course of my 3 years at RUTGERS.", "Dr. Kils encouraged students to become acquainted with other aspects of science - photography and computers. When he saw a weakness in the class's knowledge, he tried to fill it. He was also very pleasant personally - and a pleasure to greet every Friday morning", "I don't think I could be so nice and positive on such a regular basis".

It is the dream of any scientist to have her name in NATURE or SCIENCE. His was in both.

His students are allowed to publish without his name on. All his publications are sold out.

He programmed the virtual microscope. he has own web servers and does not need space on wikipedia, see FOTO KILS http://web.archive.org/web/20001019164813/www.ecoscope.com/fotokils.htm and on his university servers http://web.archive.org/web/20010803121250/krill.rutgers.edu/uwe/

have a nice day

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hallo wikipedia - i am a former student of professor kils. Hisfaculty respect him: "Dr. Kils is possibly Europe’s most outstanding young marine scientist. Members of the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences with experience in oceanography regard him as one of the world’s most innovative individuals working in this field", "Kils’ contribution to this area is acknowledged as the best anywhere". every friday he worked with handicapped students in the cape may high-school. his photographers and he gave over 8 000 imagees to wikipedia, many in high resolution. just read the publication above. he has over 200 photography prizes from all over the planet. just go to ecoscope.com and click on teacher, then "space". have a wonderful day on the beach

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  • strong Keep

hallo, here is katharina r. i graduated from professor dr. dr. dr. habil. habil. uwe kils´´ elite university in germany. here are some publications he did with me (only a short selection, he published over 300 and over 30 books). uwe can ask 20 498 doctors and professors he helped to hatch all over the world to travel to jimbo whales and vote there or become a user. academics normally dont take wikipedia not serious and dont give content, because everybody can erase everything.

  • Publikationen Professor Uwe Kils.

maybe those authors asking for delete could give me their name and education, voluntary. we are preparing a 20 498 page web-server about uwe``s "notability" which i will bring in person to california headquarters and uwe gave me ok to make an offer to buy wikipedia if necessary to block those editors without a name who are constantly destroying our work. new yorkers are used to that you can manage everything with money

KILS U 1976 The salinity effect on aeration in mariculture. Meeresforsch./Rep. Mar. Res., 25(3-4), 201-206

KILS U 1979 Oxygen-regime and artificial aeration of net-cages in mariculture. Meeresforsch 27 (4) 236-243

KILS U, & KLAGES N 1979 Der Krill, Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 32 (10) 397-402 english translation: The Krill

KILS U 1979 Aspect of physiological ecology of Euphausia superba. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ICES CM1979/L:3

KILS U 1979 Performance of Antarctic Krill Euphausia superba, at different levels of oxygen saturation - Results of the 2. German Antarctic Expedition 1977/1978. Meeresforsch 27 (1) 35-47

KILS U 1979 Preliminary data on volume, density and cross section area of Antarctic Krill Euphausia superba - Results of the 2. German Antarctic Expedition 1977/1978. Meeresforsch 27 (3) 207-209

ALBERTI G, KILS U 1980 The filtering basket of Euphausia superba. ICES L54

KILS U 1982 Size Dissociation in Krill Swarms. In: Rheinheimer G, Flugel H, Lenz J, Zeitzschel B (eds) Lower Organisms and Their Role in the Food Web. Kiel Meeresforsch 5:262-263

KILS U 1982 Swimming behaviour, Swimming Performance and Energy Balance of Antarctic Krill, Euphausia superba. BIOMASS Scientific Series 3, BIOMASS Research Series - Southern Ocean Ecosystems and their living resources, initiated & Editor Sayed El-Sayed, Texas A & M University, 122 p

Kils, U 1983 Swimming and feeding of Antarctic Krill, Euphausia superba - some outstanding energetics and dynamics - some unique morphological details. In: Berichte zur Polarforschung, Alfred-Wegener-Institut fuer Polarforschung, Sonderheft 4 (1983). On the biology of Krill Euphausia superba, Proceedings of the Seminar and Report of Krill Ecology Group, ed. S. B. Schnack, 130 - 155 and title page image

ALBERTI G & KILS U 1983 Light- and Electron Microscopical Studies on the Anatomy and function of the Gills of Krill (Euphausiacea, Crustacea) Polar Biol 1: 233-242

KILS U 1986 Verhaltensphysiologische Untersuchungen an pelagischen Schwaermen - Schwarmbildung als Strategie zur Orientierung in Umweltgradienten - Bedeutung der Schwarmbildung in der Aquakultur. Ber Inst Meeresk, Kiel 163:1-168 - habilitation thesis - english title: Investigations on Behavioral Physiology of Schools - Schooling as Strategie for Orientation in Environmental Gradients - Implications of Schooling for Aquaculture

KILS U 1989 On the Micro-Structure of Micro-Layers - Results of an in situ Zooplankton-Counter. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ICES C.M.1989/L:15

KILS, U 1989 Some aspects of schooling for aquaculture. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ICES C.M.1989/F:12

KILS U, WALLER U, FISCHER, P 1989 The fish-kill of the autumn 1988 in Kiel Bay. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ICES C.M.1989/F:14

FISCHER P, KILS U 1990 In situ Investigations on Respiration and Behaviour of Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus and the Eelpout Zoaraes viviparus During Low Oxygen Stress ICES C.M.1990/F:23 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

KILS U, RUOHONEN K, MAKINEN T 1991 Daily feed intake estimates for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss Wahlbaum) evaluated with SONAR and X-ray techniques at commercial net cage farms. Coun Meet Int Coun Explor Sea 1991/F3:1-8

FISCHER P, RADEMACHER K, KILS U 1992 In situ investigations on the respiration and behaviour of the eelpout Zoarces viviparus under short term hypoxia. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 88: 181-184

KILS U 1992 The ecoSCOPE and dynIMAGE: microscale tools for in situ studies of predator-prey interactions. Arch Hydrobiol Beih 36: 83-96

SCHULZE P, R STRICKLER, B BERGSTROEM, M BERMAN, P DONAGHAY, S GALLAGHER, J HANEY, B HARGREAVES, U KILS, G PAFFENHOEFER, S RICHMAN, H VANDERPLOEG, W WELSCH, D WETHEY & J YEN 1992 Video systems for in situ studies of zooplankton. Archiv fuer Hydrobiologie Beiheft 36:1-21

KILS U 1993 Formation of Micropatches by Zooplankton-Driven Microturbulences. Bull Mar Sci 53(1): 160-169

KILS U 1994 The 3-D ecoSCOPE: A tool for investigating microdynamics and microdistributions. Proceedings of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences, fourteenth annual scientific diving symposium, October 7. Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

ASANG-SOERGEL, R, KILS, U 1994 Investigations on the temporal optic resolving power of sand goby Pomatoschistus minutus and two-spot goby Gobiusculus flavescens. J. Fish Biol 45

KILS, U, ABLE, KW 1995 The glassEYE, a technique to quantify distribution and behavior of benthic juvenile fish in turbid estuarine and harbor waters of Germany and New Jersey, U.S.A. 23. Benthic Ecology Meeting, New Brunswick, NJ (USA), 17-19 Mar 1995

THETMEYER H, KILS U 1995 To see and not to be seen: the visibility of predator and prey with respect to feeding behaviour. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 126: 1-8

KILS U, MARSCHALL P 1995 Der Krill, wie er schwimmt und frisst - neue Einsichten mit neuen Methoden (The antarctic krill Euphausia superba - feeding and swimming performances - new insights with new methods) In Hempel I, Hempel G, Biologie der Polarmeere - Erlebnisse und Ergebnisse (Biology of the Polar Oceans) Fischer Jena - Stuttgart - New York, 201-207 (and images p 209-210)

KILS U 1995 The ATOLL Laboratory and other Instruments Developed at Kiel. U.S. GLOBEC NEWS Technology Forum Number 8: 6-9

RADEMACHER K, KILS U 1996 Predator/prey dynamics of fifteen-spined stickleback (Spinachia spinachia) and the mysid (Neomysis integer). Arch Fish Mar Res 43: 171-181

ALEXANDER S, BOSCH I, BOWSER S, BRUEGGEMANN P, COLAN K, DAYTON P, KILS U, MASTRO J, ROBBINS R, SAUNDERS R, STOKES M, WU N 2000 Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island & McMurdo Sound, Antarctica - online publication, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library University of California, San Diego

KILS U 2000 IMAGES: Krill Stuff. SCIENCE 5496: 1459 - NetWatch ed. KAYSER J online publication ecoSCOPE.com - enhanced IT tools and translation of KILS U, MARSCHALL P 1995 Der Krill, wie er schwimmt und frisst - neue Einsichten mit neuen Methoden (The antarctic krill Euphausia superba - feeding and swimming performances - new insights with new methods) In Hempel I, Hempel G, Biologie der Polarmeere - Erlebnisse und Ergebnisse (Biology of the Polar Oceans) Fischer Jena - Stuttgart - New York, 201-207 (and images p 209-210)

Kils, U., (2006) So frisst der Krill krill feeds). In: Hempel, G., Hempel, I., Schiel, S., Faszination Meeresforschung, Ein oekologisches Lesebuch. Hauschild Bremen, 112 - 115

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  • Note to closing admin The WP:SPA-tagged accounts all appear to be affiliated with the professor, most have few edits outside of userspace, and many have been inactive since 2005, suggesting that they were recently recruited. Most of the arguments presented simply regurgitate the article; I see very little that actually address WP:PROF. OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:50, 2 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • weak Keep on the basis of having developed a major scientific facility. the actual citation counts are not high (5 papers, counts 34, 29, 26, 16, 5, 1, but the work is nevertheless important as judged by the textbook and other references which do not show up there.. The irrelevant arguments of some of the SPAs above should of course be disregarded, but we shouldn't allow their misjudged support to affect the decision in a negative way, either. ` DGG ( talk ) 03:37, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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