Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of controversial inventors


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The result was delete. Sr13 03:58, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

List of controversial inventors

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This (so far) short list article is problematic because neither "controversial" nor "inventors" are defined. Since I would argue that they can never be satisfactorily defined, I am suggesting deletion for this list. CIreland 08:45, 15 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. There's nothing to catalogue here: of the three "controversial inventors" listed, two are redlinks and the other is a redirect. Zetawoof(&zeta;) 08:50, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete yep, hard to define what is meant by the title. Or merge into Perpetual motion. Lugnuts 09:05, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and comments above. --Malcolmxl5 09:08, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete Subjective as all hell--this is a BLP problem waiting to happen. Blueboy96 09:50, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 10:55, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, no clear inclusion criteria Hut 8.5 12:08, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete criteria for inclusion on the list seemingly violates WP:OR.  Pats Sox Princess  14:46, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Anything said here could be said in the Perpetual motion article. The article title just does not fit a very short list out of the thousands who tried to invent perpetual motion and the charlatans who claimed they actually had. And it leaves off the controversies of Thomas Edison inventing the lightbulb versus myriad other claimants, the controversies over Marconi or Tesla inventing radio. Morse or Joseph Henry or Weber and Gauss inventing the telegraph, Fitch or Fulton inventing the steamboat, Bell or Gray inventing the telephone, the controversies over Tesla being Croatian, Austrian or Serbian, of Atanasoff or Mauchly inventing the electronic computer, etc. Edison 20:20, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.--Targeman 23:31, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This list is obviously incomplete and has no references nor does have any criteria whatsoever to support each entry.--JForget 00:24, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom; this is pure subjectivity. "Controversy" is probably inherent in doing something others haven't done before - or couldn't get working - or couldn't make a commercial go of. Carlossuarez46 02:03, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. When creating the page, i had one particular intention. Some time ago i have downloaded few controversial videos. Some where really scientific, but some others were fakes. And it took me a time to distinguish which fall to which category. So, i wanted to help people by creating a list of fake/imaginary scientists, to help people without good knowledge to decide whether particular information/video is it worth matching or not. Raigedas 09:57, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete: Though I appreciate Raigedas's intentions, this is not the place. It violates both WP:OR and WP:POV. Dan Gluck 05:52, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete per nom., and all comments in agreement.--JayJasper 14:29, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete as per above. Bearian 20:14, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. For what information is actually there, a teeny list of people who claimed to invent perpetual motion, we have History of perpetual motion machines.  Someguy1221 02:07, 19 July 2007 (UTC)


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