Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paavo Airola


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The result was delete. Sarahj2107 (talk) 08:15, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Paavo Airola

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Appears to be a non-notable natural health guru. Sources do not establish notability. The most biographical detail comes from Quackwatch (which is considered a reliable source), but other sources are dead links or don't cover him in depth. Fails WP:BASIC and WP:ACADEMIC. His bibliography is impressive, but oriented to a fringe alt-med community, so it appears his notability is hardly mainstream. Delta13C (talk) 18:16, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:18, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:18, 5 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Currently uncertain but may consider Delete because the WorldCat shows 1,739 which may not be enough and the article contains noticeable claims, but my searches have found nothing outstandingly better, delete perhaps unless this can be substantially improved. Notifying for subject analysis.  SwisterTwister   talk  05:36, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Nobody has opined for keeping this so far, but I think a relist is customary for an AfD of such low participation.
 * It is problematic that the provenance of his PhD and ND degrees cannot be determined. This is reflected in the remark in the Quackwatch article on him that states that his educational background is nowhere to be found. I could not find more details other than he is "Russian educated": I found a reference for him in MacLeans's (Oct. 27 1980), edited by Marsha Boulton, pg. 43: "It is better to eat junk food and exercise a lot than to eat healthy foods and not exercise at all,' comes the word from Dr. Paavo Airola. The 66-year old Finnish-born, Swedish and Russian-educated nutritionist, who took out Canadian citizenship and now lives in Arizona, is on a continuing rampage in favor of sit-ups and against the evils of protein, an excess of which he believes causes cancer. He also blames refrigerators for causing bad health by encouraging people to eat old food. Even granola, the crunchy delight of health-food faddists, cannot escape his wrath. The great granola dilemma is apparantely the shelf life that allows air to ravage the contents. Quite simply, says Airola: 'It's rancid.'" There are other sources that mention him, but they come from sources that are fringe, which include the Townsend Letter and other natural health magazines. Delta13C (talk) 07:14, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. promotional article whose facts cannot be verified. We cover notable quacks, if there's enough information for an objective article. None of his books seem to be in more than 200libraries, which is trivial in this field. None of them are published by an established publisher- not even an established specialist publisher in the field of natural health or alt med. In fact, it has published only his own books, plus a book written by his daughter. That means his books are essentially self-published. We very rarely cover self-published authors in any subject except in the rare cases where they really do attract significant outside notice  DGG ( talk ) 15:38, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Deryck C. 17:38, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete-- non-notable author, Google books search results are not encouraging. Likely cannot meet GNG now or in the future. K.e.coffman (talk) 18:58, 13 June 2016 (UTC)


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