Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Lin

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The result was Delete. Essjay (Talk) 10:47, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stephen Lin[edit]

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This looks like it is either a self-grandeurising autobio, a joke, or otherwise a hoax. Googling for "Stephen Lin" gives nothing of relevance, the article is unsourced, and the "references" section is a list of academic papers which seems to have nothing to do with the subject (they're not even authored by him). The external links speak for themselves. The article article starter and image uploader are both accounts used only for this article. Clayboy 19:39, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Garbage. He would have been in grade school when he claims he invented Cipro. Fan-1967 19:40, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Note that the Encyclopedia Dramatica link ends up on a sex page. Fan-1967 19:42, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Autobiography and/or apparent hoax Ck l o stsw o rd|^queta!|_Suggestions? 20:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete dumb. (Don't most people wear suits to medical conventions?) Danny Lilithborne 22:22, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep helped promote gene replacement therapy, was keystone in those times. --68.126.1.203 21:32, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep His work is obviously important to the Health Community and Humanity as a whole. Puntme 06:08, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know why you people think this isn't credible. You can contact him yourself at Emory U. I am a colleague of his and a fellow staff member on board of information. We strive for accuracy in the information publicly posted of our staff members. I would be glad to give you any information you want to deem this a "credible" article, but as far as I'm concerned, it already is. Rasburried — Rasburried (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Delete per WP:HOAX. 19 year old genius and inventor of Ciprofloxacin. 1 Ghit. Wikipedia is not myspace. Ohconfucius 06:56, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Only apparent source seems to be Myspace. No relevant hits on Google Scholar or Google that I can find. No luck finding any relevant hits on Infotrac or other services, yet. Luna Santin 09:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Note Per this legal filing, Bayer filed the first patents on Cipro in 1980-81, years before this kid was born. Fan-1967 14:46, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep In regards to your note, Luna Stalin, there are a lot of dates on that page. And filing a patent does not mean that it was created that year. They can reserve the rights to it. Moreover, no where in the Stephen Lin article does it say he invented the drug, but rather worked on it. You know there are different methods of producing drugs? Who's to say he didn't find a more efficient way? I contributed to this article with the impression that the information given to me, and that I researched was accurate and I stand by it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.82.240.26 (talk) 19:46, 18 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Comment We don't keep articles because somebody claims it conceivably might be true. We only keep articles that are Verifiable from Reliable Sources. No sources have been produced to support any of this, and every search indicates that this kid is a nobody with a myspace page. Fan-1967 14:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This is a Hoax!!! --Escondites talk 05:08, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
KeepMr. Lin is a very intelligent man. His contributions to the medical field are, while not widely known, very important. He can be contacted at Emory University in Atlanta.- LOWAS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.82.249.45 (talk • contribs)
Delete Clearly a hoax. Just in case anyone really was wondering:

The MySpace page directly contradicts information in this article which states "At the age of 7, Lin skipped High school entirely and went directly to UC Berkeley". Where-as according to MySpace, Mr Lin attended Thousand Oaks High School from 2002 to 2005.
Nothing on the MySpace page mentions anything about Mr Lin's genius or his work. It looks like a fairly typical adolescent kid's MySpace page.
It says he works for a non-existant company (Ramos-Loch Pharmaceuticals).
The article clearly states he is the "co-creator" of Ciprofloxacin, a drug that was around (and manufactured) long before Mr Lin was even born.
His father is named as Kim Jong Nil (sound familiar?) who came from "Americatown" in China (a non-existant Chinese town, which is a play on our own Chinatown term).
And finally, nothing in the page is verifiable anywhere. Yay unto the Chicken 11:55, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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