Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elchin Khalilov


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The result was delete. Sarah-Jane (talk) 14:42, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Elchin Khalilov

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This article does not meet the notability criteria. Elchin Khalilov is the founder/cofounder of a number of organisations of dubious scientific credibility, most of which have been deleted from Wikipedia (see Articles for deletion/Communiqué "Geochange", Articles for deletion/Global Network for the Forecasting of Earthquakes (2nd nomination)).

The article list dubious prices he was awarded of which I can find no reference anywhere: "Nobel Prize Winner Pavlov Golden Chest Badge" and the "Nobel Prize Winner P.N.Kapitsa Silver Medal “To author of scientific discovery”". Even if there is such an award I would doubt that it comes with grammatical errors in it's inscription.

It seems that he uses this self-generated credibility to sell dubious earthquake prediction machines ("the Global Network allows predicting earthquakes all over the Eastern Hemisphere with a 90% probability") to developing countries.

This article is full of references that don't check out (just checking randomly a few): Number 26: A book with this ISBN is nowhere referenced. Number 8 claims to be from The NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, but the url is "http://www.sfp-982167.org" and the site is gone. Most of the other references come directly from one of the circle of his organisation. DieBuche (talk) 16:15, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete -- I've tried to check out some of the links and references as the nom has and I couldn't find them. It's not the WP community's best use of time to check every single source to see if there's a single pearl in the faked/promo links. -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 23:38, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. The presence of scammers like the International Biographical Centre in the references and pseudoscientific organizations like the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in the awards and honors throws the whole thing into question. And as already said, the sheer volume of puffery in this one makes it impossible to tell whether there is any actual notability hidden among all the rest. Another bad sign is the highly prolific publication claimed in the article in contrast with the low citation numbers (max=18) found by Google scholar. The Lenin Komsomol Prize may be real (I didn't find sources to check, but I would expect them to be in Russian) but it's the only thing that looks like a legitimate honor in the article and as a junior-researcher prize it's not enough. And the nominator's accusations that the subject is using this material to peddle pseudoscience is troubling. Per WP:FRINGE, we need a mainstream scientific evaluation of his work, and obtaining that seems unlikely, but without it we have a problem with maintaining a neutral point of view. All said, there are many bad points about this article and nothing good enough to rise to a justification for a keep, so I think it should be deleted. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:49, 5 December 2015 (UTC)


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