Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Massimo Angelini

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The result was Delete. Tim Vickers (talk) 03:25, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Massimo Angelini

A lot of fake stuff. This person is still alive, I've talked with one of his students... then, work like A failure as Physicist but incomparable as headmaster or The Headmaster are completely fake (also google thinks so ;-)). Furthermore, if it's a so famous physicist, why isn't an article on the Italian wikipedia (at least a stub?). --Fil nik ^dimmi! 10:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

comment This person does appear to be notable, but it is very hard to sift through the article to find out what exactly is true and isn't. There are a lot of google hits out there for this person (or at least for people with the same name), but not being able to speak Italian makes it hard to judge. I've had a nose through the Italian speaking Wikipedians list, and found User:Alessandro57 who might be a good person to ask for their thoughts. I'll drop a note on his page. StephenBuxton (talk) 11:46, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Got a response from User:Alessandro57, who stated that the article is a hoax. StephenBuxton (talk) 09:23, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm Italian and I've seen that there are a lot of people with the same name and surname of this Headmaster. But if you see they are all different people, the first is a photograph, another is works with plants and trees (this one) and so on. If you search for Massimo Angelini preside you won't find something (headmaster = preside in Italian) because now preside is no more used in Italian but dirigente scolastico so if you search for Massimo Angelini dirigente scolastico you'll find the right person. But as you can see, it's a normal headmaster in articles like Massimo Angelini will take a speech about his gymnasium or something related to some events that his gymnasium takes part. So, imho it's a fake :-) --Fil nik ^dimmi! 12:32, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions. -- Beloved Freak 13:41, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. -- Beloved Freak 13:42, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete. Most of the information in the article did not check out when I attempted verification. There is absolutely nothing by this guy or citing him in MathSciNet or Web of Science. The ArXiv also has not heard of him or his theorems. Nothing of relevance in GoogleScholar[1]. You cannot get a "famous physisist" with no publications and no mentions of your work in scholarly articles. Fails WP:V and WP:PROF. I don't think he passes WP:BIO either. GoogleNews[2] and GoogleBooks[3] have nothing of relevance about him or his books. I don't see evidence of substantial coverage by independent reliable sources here as required by WP:BIO. Moreover, given the problems with all the unverified and potentially contentious claims in this article, and given the fact that this is a BLP article, WP:BLP gives us an extra reason to delete it. Nsk92 (talk) 17:41, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The brilliant mathematical discovery from an elementary geometry course is enough to show this is absurd. sounds like a typical schoolboy prank making possibly affectionate fun of a teacher. DGG (talk) 04:25, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Oh my, this is ridiculous. -Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 00:28, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - hoax, random nonsensical vandalism; whatever it is, away with it. There's certainly no notability here. I'm surprised a newpage patroller didn't Speedy this. Merenta (talk) 00:31, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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