Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Maximum


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result of the debate was Delete.--Kungfu Adam (talk) 19:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

John Maximum
Fixing another user's broken AFD link - it looks like there's some abuse going on at this article. Two people have said it is a hoax, but the original contributor just removes their warning without comment. BigDT 12:52, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - I googled and can't find the guy BigDT 12:54, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I saved one of my tabs too fast. Here is the reason why I nominated it for deletion: There is no John Maximum. The book mentioned in the references does not exist: it is not mentioned in COPAC (the combined catalogue of major UK libraries), even though it is said to be written by an English mathematician working in Scotland and published in England. Furthermore, the maximum principle said to be invented by him is in fact already mentioned in Polya and Szego, Aufgaben und Lehrsatze aus der Analysis, published in 1924, coincidentally the year that John Maximum is supposed to be born. In short, this article is wholly untrue. Delete -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 12:57, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete the article and all related crap uploaded by User:Astromoose. Fredrik Johansson 13:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - Uploaded image of book cover has been nominated for deletion. &mdash;ERcheck @ 16:39, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax. Google knows nothing of the man, the book, or his theorem. Weregerbil 13:51, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, but may I congratulate the author on a very entertaining read, especially the "Harmonic Neighbourhood Theorem", and excellent airbrush work on the book. Dmharvey 14:02, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax &mdash;M e ts501 talk 15:12, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:47, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - hoax. Article creator inserted assertion (and was since reverted) into the Maximum principle article that John Maximum was the originator.  Nice try. &mdash;ERcheck @ 16:21, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete.Balcer 16:40, 7 May 2006 (UTC)


 * 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.