Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Titanium alloy mind shielding

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. DS 12:11, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Titanium alloy mind shielding

At first glance this article appears to be about genuine scientific research into the ideas the tin-foil hat brigade espouse, but there is a distinct whiff of hoaxery about it; while the people mentioned (Samuel Goldfarb, Eduardo Miranda) are genuine names of research scientists, there are a few glaringly odd points. Firstly, the Executive Order 1949/117b supposedly authorized by Truman - Executive Orders do not use a date-slash-number format, just numbers, and it's not listed on any EO list I've checked. Second, I can find no evidence of any of the cited references existing - no book or paper titles match anything. The "First Annual Conference on Titanium Alloy Mind Shielding", supposedly having taken place in 2005, sounds fishy in the extreme. This is more elaborate than most Wikipedia hoaxes, but unless I'm very much mistaken it's a hoax nonetheless. ~Matticus ^T_C 13:40, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

• Delete as WP:BOLLOCKS and WP:HOAX - no verifiable sources. —Travis^talk 13:46, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete The title was a give-away, but it's a cleverly-written hoax. There actually have been people who wear aluminum foil inside a hat out of a paranoid belief that it shields them from having their thoughts read (or controlled) by "the government", and I think that this is the inspiration for the hoax. Titanium would, of course, be more expensive, but NO LESS EFFECTIVE than aluminum foil in shielding the human mind from such intrusion. No price is too high for peace of mind. Plus, if you call within the next 10 minutes, you'll get a second titanium alloy mind shield absolutely free, a $99.95 value. Mandsford 14:21, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete and it's a shame we won't have a WP:BJAODN for much longer is this is a great hoax - per this site the cited professor has never worked in Brazil, and the one lie unravels the rest of the article. Good one though. Pedro |  Chat  15:23, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Fails WP:N and WP:V. Besides that, everyone knows that Mu-metal is a better metal for mind control shielding. Edison 15:37, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Big time WP:BALLS, conspiracy theory fodder. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 20:14, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
• Fools! You have been taken in by the global conspiracy to suppress the TRUTH! Only titanium can protect us! ... um, that is, delete. -- Hongooi 07:56, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Take a look at the "Dr. Miranda" link; somebody's making a little joke. Acroterion _(talk) 15:58, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete There are well known ways of shielding from EMF, and none of them involve titanium. The link, as Acroterion saw, is indeed the give-away for the joke. not bad, as jokes go. DGG (talk) 06:05, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete This is a rather obvious (but admittedly clever) hoax. Why would anyone use expensive titanium for this purpose, when a double-layer of aluminum foil wrapped around one's head provides perfectly adequate protection of my unconscious from external electromagnetic surveillance and control. And I did not vote to delete just because I have been ordered to do so by those voices being transmitted into my head. Alansohn 08:40, 17 August 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.