Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marvin Harris (inventor)


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The result was Delete. Jayjg (talk) 01:42, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Marvin Harris (inventor)

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Unverifiable story, no reliable sources listed or found, not the antropologist, claim of invention of transistor radio is highly doubtful, entire source of article appears to originate in a story from December 1999 Harper's Magazine about the war on drugs.

Dubious notability, people get arrested for smuggling all the time and many find religion while in prison. Not the inventor of the transistor radio. Not even enough bigraphical detail (dates, a city or state of residence, arrest date, etc. ) in this article to identify which person it is and research the subject further. There are many Marvin Harrises popping up in Google. Talk page says this individual was born around 1930, if that helps. Wtshymanski (talk) 18:41, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Delete per WP:BLP1E.--JohnnyB256 (talk) 19:17, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete notable for a solitary - and non-notable - event. The claim that the subject of the article was the inventor of the transistor radio had a source, but it was removed as it was not reliable. Doc StrangeMailbox Logbook 19:34, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per WP:BLP1E. Joe Chill (talk) 21:51, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - being busted for drugs is not notable. Being the inventor of the transistor radio would be if the claim were credible but it is rather doubtful given that our article on transistor radio indicates the first showing of one was in 1953 by a German firm.  He may have designed an early transistor radio but there are no good sources documenting this.  The attribution appears to be circulating around Mormon web sites.  See, , and . --Whpq (talk) 17:51, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
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