Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert J. Baran


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:12, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Robert J. Baran

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Declined speedy, contested prod. Claim of notability, yet no offer of sources. GScholar shows one possible patent (apparently there is also a patent atty with the same name). GBooks has a total of 5, which may or may not be the article subject. GNews has numerous hits for that name, but from all over, from a bonsai plant guy to the above attorney, to our subject (on a page listing all of his self-published works), to a 1965 criminal case, to an obit, ad nauseum. The page needs to be either deleted or userified until it is ready for Wikipedia. GregJackP (talk) 23:13, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete I can't find any genuine info on this guy either. Even if true, this sounds like no more than a reasonably successful engineering career. Brianyoumans (talk) 00:14, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:16, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Reliable sources were requested a number of times in a number of ways, and not forthcoming.  As above, disinterested parties can't locate any either.  The self-published novel accrues no notability.  And now that the subject appears to have taken a hand, there are also big conflict of interest/autobiography issues.  Accounting4Taste: talk 02:31, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. 0 publications in WoS and 1 pub in GS (which turns out actually to be only a letter to the editor in J. Nuc. Med.) and a patent. GS shows only a few citations. There are boatloads of fact-tags and it is clear that the sources here are unacceptable – a knowledgerush website is not WP:RS. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 15:08, 9 April 2010 (UTC).
 * Delete - unsourced resumé. B.Wind (talk) 17:50, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
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