Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Huw Evans

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 of the debate was Delete Naconkantari 04:28, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Huw Evans

prod posted, then removed, then replaced (Which it shouldn't be). Given that this page is controversial, and that the subject is of questionable notability, AfD is the place to resolve it. EngineerScotty 22:46, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

• The page has been vandalized a bit since it's creation; however it does look like a vanity page about a non-notable college professor. Searches on scholar.google, google, and Citeseer; could find no references to any papers by Evans. Hence, delete. --EngineerScotty 22:52, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment The prod was put back due to the fact that the person removing it was the person the article was about, or so it would seem. The person resorted to personal attacks, so the prod was restored. 69.145.123.171 ^Hello! Friday, June 23, 2006, 01:32 (UTC)
• May I sugest that those looking for Evans should either look harder, I myself have found several references, or simply get a life. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.155.136.222 (talk • contribs) .
  • Comment: Add them to the article, then. If notability can be established, I'll gladly change my vote to keep. --EngineerScotty 16:38, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, W.marsh 00:57, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as non-notable, unless notability can be verified using reliable sources. --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 01:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Tag and keep for organic expansion, article does claim notability and from the face of it, this article only needs to be expanded! -- Librarianofages 02:14, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as unacceptable vanity. The creator of the article is User:Mathsmadrob who is or claims to be Robert Huw Evans. Pascal.Tesson 02:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment just because he created the article himself doesn't meant it is un-acceptable.. his writings have been cited over 300 times in other acadmemic works and he does in fact appear to be a real professor. -- Librarianofages 02:52, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment, please share the information you found about him with us, when you get an opportunity. Thanks! Kuru ^talk 05:03, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment The easiest rule of thumb to apply on WP:AFD is that if someone writes an article about themselves, their band or their website, that's a fabulous reason to delete it. If its worthy of an entry, someone else will make it. WilyD 15:32, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - well if he is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with 300 papers then he is notable, although the writer has got it as MTI.Blnguyen | rant-line 02:57, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment Sorry, you may of mis-understood, not 300 articles, his articles have been used 300 times in reference in other peoples articles. -- Librarianofages 03:06, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment actually the WP:VAIN guidelines say "Since we are all inherently biased towards ourselves, it is usually best to await the day when someone whom we have never met, might choose to write such an article about ourselves, thus proving beyond a doubt that such a neutral interest does indeed exist." Note also that it is not uncommon for a researcher in mathematics to be cited 300 times in other peoples' articles over the course of his career. Note further that it is kind of odd that you cannot find a trace of his name on the MIT mathematics department page. [1] Pascal.Tesson 03:15, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Bonus comment, User:Librarianofages, can you give a reference for the claim about these 300 citations? Pascal.Tesson 03:31, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
      • Scrub that, I didn't limit my search enough, appears to be a hoax article. Delete -- Librarianofages 22:34, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, fails WP:BIO, WP:VAIN. --Coredesat talk 04:32, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, as utterly unverified at this point. If someone could back up any of the assertions in the article, or even point to any of his work, that would be great. Then we can talk about the professor test and all. Kuru ^talk 05:01, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• delete hoax? Massachusetts Technical Institute, that's not MIT is it? Google knows of no MTI. The article is *really* badly written, and the name Robert Huw Evans generates no googlehits beyond WP. Also, absence of any faculty web page makes "He is also extremely handsome" unverifyable. Pete.Hurd 05:22, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment, well, there used to be a Southeastern Massachusetts Technical Institute - it became a UMASS campus at some point. I also noticed several foreign references to MIT as Massachusetts Technical Institute - sort of a bad translation. Not that any of that helps. Just thought I'd get some mileage out of the 20 minutes of google-fu looking for this guy. Kuru ^talk 05:39, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. The 'extremely handsome' part at the end of the article does it for me. Black-Velvet 09:15, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Looks like a hoax to me. Dsreyn 13:24, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per vanity, no assertion of notability, biography, et al. WilyD 15:34, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as apparent hoax. No listing with MIT, no Ghits. Fails Wp:BIO in any case. Not least in disappointment were unfulfilled claims by "keep" voters to provide supporting sources or references. Oh well. Tychocat 21:06, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as apparent hoax. In this day and age, any technical institute in Massachussets (whether university, college, or anything else) is bound to maintain at least some web presence. The so-called "Massachusetts Technical Institute" has none. Unless someone can convince me of reality of this institution, and of reality and notability of this professor, I assume a hoax. Ekjon Lok 01:09, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Ekjon Lok.--Joe Jklin (T C) 04:22, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Ekjon Lok. --Metropolitan90 07:14, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Ekjon Lok. Percy Snoodle 15:24, 3 July 2006 (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.