Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Duc-Truong Pham

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 10:38, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Duc-Truong Pham

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Not sure whether it falls under notability or not.-- Luigi30 (Taλk) 13:59, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy Delete as copyvio of http://www.mec.cf.ac.uk/~spepp1/ If you see the history you'll see the text is borrowed from an other website. (that's the reason for the hangon tag). The editor claims he is the author of the other web page though. -- lucasbfr ^talk 14:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as non-sourced/non referenced biography/autobiography. Even with copyright, without substantiation of claims, fails WP:BIO. SkierRMH 02:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

  I don't agree with you on WP:BIO, it seems to pass the professor test for me: he published a book amazon-- lucasbfr ^talk 10:59, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• Comment The source article now states that the content is licensed under the GFDL. I have no further objection on this article. -- lucasbfr ^talk 11:24, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - as resume .Patstuart^talk|edits 19:10, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - per above 22mon 01:17, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
• Severe cleanup of this self-promoter's autobiography. Would seem to be notable per his achievements and awards/recognition, but neutrality of the article is non-existent and potentially speediable per WP:SPAM. Pretty clear case of conflict of interest: not only has Sweetpea2007 written his own bio on the University website and then reposts it here and licences it under GFDL, he has created what is a similarly non-neutral POV article for Manufacturing Engineering Centre, which is a best-case merge to Cardiff University. Ohconfucius 01:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
  • I would agree to a speedy deletion of the article as spam, so that the author would be allowed to repost. Perhaps this is actually the best compromise, so he can be allowed to recreate the article in the future. Patstuart^talk|edits 01:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Now tagged {{db-spam}} Ohconfucius 02:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I found the puffery rather mild, considering that he is a CBE, but if the author wants to recreate, let him/her do so.DGG 03:17, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• • • • Errr... adding db spam to an article under AfD is a bit rude, isn't it? -- lucasbfr ^talk 09:06, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• • • Professor Pham did not create any article on Wikipedia and the article does not contain any 'puff' but pure facts.

The reason that I created this biography because last week, I wrote an article about the Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC), some administrator put a hyper-link under 'Professor Pham' and suggested that information is required. So I completed it by putting in prof Pham's biography from the MEC web site (the contents of which I am responsible for).

My emphasis: Professor Pham did not create any page on Wikipedia as he would not have the time. I am, Paulette (alias 'Sweetpea2007'), the author for the MEC article and his biography.

By the way:

1. Check your facts before defaming someone of self-promoting, puffing ...

2. A correction: from his biography 'He was made an OBE' (not CBE as stated in the above discussion).

3. To some people, someone's achievement is always a 'puff'.

4. I have removed the article myself as I have no time for further arguments.

Bye!

Sweetpea2007 15:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC) Sweetpea2007 15:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy delete since author blanked the page he made and no one else has made non-deletion tag-related edits to it. Flyingtoaster1337 10:17, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.