Talk:Luigi Fontana (medical researcher)

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not encyclopedic
this is typical PR writing and not encyclopedic. moving to talk, as perhaps these refs can be used to generate content

In 2003 and 2009, he was featured in The New York Times, “Food for Holiday Thought: Eat Less, Live to 140?” by David Hochman, and “The Calorie-Restriction Experiment” by John Gertner In 2006, he was interview by The Wall Street Journal, “Reducing Your Daily Calories by 40%: The Science Behind 'Starvation' Diets” by Tara Parker-Pope. In 2008, he was featured in Newsweek magazine, “The Search for Longer Life” by Anne Underwood. In 2010, he was featured in Time magazine, “Health Checkup: How to Live 100 Years - Eat Less, Live Longer?” by Bryan Walsh. In August 2012, he was featured in the BBC Horizon documentary Eat, Fast, Live Longer by Michael J. Mosley.

--Jytdog (talk) 17:25, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
 * First is a passing mention. Not useful.
 * Second has some discussion about him; will use.
 * 3rd ref (WSJ) is passing mention
 * 4th ref, newsweek, has a bit more info on the study of 45 people from the CRS. Will use.
 * 5th ref, Time, has passing mention. (not "featured" for pete's sake)
 * 6th ref is a dead link and videos don't work in the internet archive. Based on the promotional editing, unclear is he was actually "featured". There are several WP:COPYLINK videos on the web.

-- Jytdog (talk) 18:20, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

HM
This page is linked from his linkedin profile. Generally a bad sign. Jytdog (talk) 18:31, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Possible copyvio or close paraphrasing
I have made some cuts to the article to remove content which either was unsourced, sounded promotional or was not verified by the references. I have tagged the article as BLP needing more sources and as needing more seondary sources - only 3 of the current 15 refs are secondary sources, and three are hjournal articles written by the subject.

I have addded the connected contributor template to the Talk page on the basis of username because has edited the article. That editor has written 40% of the current version. Several paragraphs are very similar to Fontana's university profile, which is one of the article's references. This content was added to the article in 2019, partly by LuFontana69 and partly by IP editors editing on the same day as that user. I have not requested revision deletion as I would usually for suspected copyvio, as I cannot see a date the profile was created - it is possible that it is mirroring Wikipedia. The Wayback machine did not find content which would help to date it. Tacyarg (talk) 21:22, 21 September 2023 (UTC)