Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sheri Cohen


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The result was   delete.  Sandstein  08:10, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Sheri Cohen

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I have not been able to find any evidence that such a person exists. If she conducted a study of menstrual synchrony, no report was ever published as far as I can tell. Looie496 (talk) 22:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * delete i think. If she was in fact the first to prove menstrual synchrony, that would be notable. The wiki article on this is caled the McClintock effect. No mention of a cohen there. But... still searching. It appears a "Sari Cohen" has been involved in research in this area... but it's not clear from anything i can find that she was the "first" to prove this theory.Bali ultimate (talk) 23:03, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Google Scholar returns no hits. Google News returns no hits for a search with these keywords: "Sheri Cohen" "menstrual synchrony". A general Goggle search returns 3 hits, all related to the Wikipedia article.--Eric Yurken (talk) 14:54, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. No formal vote, but this seems problematic. Sheri seems unlikely to be her full forename, which might be a problem with Google searches; I've tried searching with "S Cohen" and "menstruation" or "menstrual", which comes up with many hits, but represents several different people. It is entirely possible that the work on what's now termed menstrual synchrony referred to it under a different name. Also, the Stanford Center For Research On Women, named in the article, has been renamed the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. The page creator might be able to help, but hasn't yet been notified -- I'll go and do that now. Ah, I see they've been indef. blocked. Espresso Addict (talk) 22:47, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. I've tried a little Googling in an attempt to figure out whether this is a hoax or not, and have at least come up with a chronology of directors of CROW (under its various names): Myra Strober 1974–1976; Diane Middlebrook 1977–1979; Myra Strober again 1979–1984; Deborah Rhode 1986–1990; Iris F. Litt 1990–1997; Laura Carstensen 1997–2001; Barbara C. Gelpi, acting director 2002–2003; Londa Schiebinger 2004–present. If Cohen exists there's only a brief window 1985 where she might have fit, and it's surprising that nothing can be found on her when all those others can be found. I'm leaning towards a hoax. Regardless, this fails verifiability. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm leaning towards hoax here, per David Eppstein's careful searches and the fact that the creator & sole substantive editor has been indefinitely blocked as a sockpuppet. I too failed to find evidence that an S Cohen had ever been the director of CROW. If we're mistaken, then someone else can always create the page with appropriate referencing. Espresso Addict (talk) 19:58, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per all of the above comments. Does look like a possible hoax and, at the moment, fails WP:V. Nsk92 (talk) 21:57, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


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