Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/M.A.Padmanabha Rao


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The result was   delete. joe deckertalk to me 16:04, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

M.A.Padmanabha Rao

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This article is written by the person himself, and is looking like advertisement of his own. Check his user page also, its the same. Rangilo Gujarati ( talk ) 17:24, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. I did a search on his name and I'm not bringing up any scientific journals or anything to that nature. All I'm finding is various and multiple sites where the author himself went about proclaiming his "discovery". If I'm reading all of the mess on his page correctly, he claims that his "Bharat Radiation" was discovered in 2010. However, in one forum he was making claims of this discovery back in 2005. Whenever anyone tried to question it, he always directed them back to his personal website. So far his claims don't seem to have been scientifically proven by anyone other than himself. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 18:00, 30 September 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79
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 * Weak keep. Google Scholar throws up many results, but not sure if that's enough to pass WP:PROF.  Lynch 7  20:56, 30 September 2011 (UTC) Delete, after examining academics notability guidelines. Doesn't seem notable enough in his field to pass WP:PROF, nor is he a reputed chair in a university.  Lynch  7  11:15, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Google scholar also throws back precisely bugger-all on the subject of "Bharat radiation", which appears to be this guy's main claim to notability. It looks to me (and, judging by some of the search results, every physicist except Prof Rao) like something he made up one day. Given the lack of published work on his principal discovery (and major claim to fame), I call delete; Wikipedia is not the place to announce your fringe theory. As for the rest, it ain't technically policy but: WP:RESUME. Yunshui (talk) 21:58, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. 21 cites on GS. We normally require many hundreds to pass WP:Prof. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:25, 30 September 2011 (UTC).
 * Delete - Fringe-theory-peddling quack. (It's worth nothing that "Bharat" is Sanskirt for "India", i.e. "Bharat radiation" = "Indian radiation".) Fails WP:PROF, WP:RESUME, and (to toss it into the alphabet soup) WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:04, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
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