Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ernest G. Hope


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The result was delete. SmartSE (talk) 15:04, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Ernest G. Hope

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Per 2012112510000767, this article has been nominated for the following reason:

My guess is that Mr. Hope wrote this article about himself to add credibility to his business projects. You should know that I also found (negative BLP claim redacted), as well as Youtube videos he made where he claims to work at Stanford University, which is not true.

I know you cannot police every Wikipedia article. But, I would suggest you insist this author either substantiate his claims or take down his article. I am not a person who likes to stir trouble. But, I am afraid that older, vulnerable people might see the article on Wikipedia, assume it is fact, and be hurt by a deceitful person. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 05:43, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * King of Hearts, do you have an opinion yourself, or are you merely transmitting the nomination from a third party? --MelanieN (talk) 01:02, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I am merely transmitting a message, and do not wish to express an opinion myself. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 02:06, 27 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. I don't know if there was a conflict of interest involved, but the article is definitely promotional and the subject doesn't appear to be notable at all. DoctorKubla (talk) 11:11, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
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 * Possible copyvio; identical copy found here . Furthermore, I don't believe a lot of the stuff in the article and will do further research if it is not speedy-deleted. --MelanieN (talk) 00:29, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I was able (through a passworded account) to confirm that he DID in fact receive MD and PhD degrees from Stanford in 1999. His book "COURAGE" appears to be self-published. --MelanieN (talk) 00:34, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete I was not able to confirm anything else, and many of the claims in the article seem very dubious. ...which makes him today "The Father of Adult Stem Cells". I could not confirm that anyone else calls him this. Hope was the first to discover and publish the then unthinkable concept of "re-embryonalization of adult differentiated cells. I could find no such publication at PubMed or Google Scholar, where his articles are minimal and his citation level unremarkable. Furthermore, the article claims that he made this breakthrough in 1986, when he was 20; he did not receive his doctoral degrees until 1999. Hope has been mentored by Linus Pauling. Linus Pauling never worked on stem cells that I can find, and he was only at Stanford from 1969 to 1972 - in other words when Hope was a small child. Basically there is a lot of unconfirmed and unlikely material in this article, and what can be confirmed does not make him notable.--MelanieN (talk) 00:56, 27 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Lacking reliable sources on review of article and searching; above concerns compound the problem. -- Scray (talk) 01:43, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete, presto. Smacks of self-promotion. The hooter of a claim to be "known as the father of adult stem cells" is not supported at adult stem cells or at related sources, and ditto for other claims. Two relatively minor publications, fails WP:ACADEMIC by far too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Truth or consequences-2 (talk • contribs)
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