Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tahir Manzoor Lone

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The result was Delete. It seems pretty clear this is a hoax. Ged UK 20:49, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tahir Manzoor Lone[edit]

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The article author has, since creation, changed the schools attended without explanation, and without references. This reads like a self-promoting puff piece, an inflated résumé, not a legit article. Every reference added has been extremely general, and did not support the facts it was attached to. Without reliable sources, and with the suspect edits, I'm inclined to dismiss the vast majority as a fabrication to make a non-notable professor seem notable. Even if it isn't, the institutions for which he theoretically served in notable positions (according to WP:PROF) appear themselves non-notable; if the organization isn't notable, there is no transitive notability for executive positions at it. —ShadowRanger ^(talk|stalk) 19:33, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. — Gongshow ^Talk 00:10, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. -- –SpacemanSpiff 00:19, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. -- –SpacemanSpiff 00:19, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and I think that a snow closure would be entirely appropriate, especially since this is not explicit enough for {{db-hoax}}. All India Institute of Medical Sciences of which the subject was supposedly the Chancellor, doesn't have that position. The Institute is not a university per se and comes directly under the control of the Government of India's Ministry of Health, and the Health Minister serves as the chair of the governing body. Also, this person's name is not included in the organization's list of Directors. For someone who was the head of AIIMS in the nineties, there should be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more Ghits. –SpacemanSpiff 00:45, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Also, there's a medical student from Lahore of the same name. –SpacemanSpiff 00:48, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per SpacemanSpiff and the total lack of references to back the claims the article makes. Bfigura ^(talk) 01:19, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a blatant failure of WP:V. For instance, the claims of chairing a major department at Mass General and acting as interim director are not consistent with the complete absence of Lone's name from Harvard web sites. Also, "University Of Cambridge"? I agree that it's not quite so obvious a hoax as to warrant a G3 speedy, but early closure is a possibility. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:51, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. References? MiRroar (talk) 18:05, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I initially did some work to move it beyond speedy deletion, but after further analysis and the above findings, it obviously should be deleted.--Pink Bull 18:09, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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