Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/D. Gary Young

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The result was delete. Wizardman 03:35, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

D. Gary Young

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This is a wildly biased advertisement for a 'natural oils' salesman. I'd clean it up by rewriting to neutral and removing unverifiable facts, but as I tried, I couldn't find a single

• Bernadean University is an established diploma mill [1]
• The Journal of Essential Oil Research does not appear to be a major peer reviewed journal, but someone with more experience in the area should check this. It looks to me like a journal intended for amateurs to publish in, but I'm not sure. (see below)
• The Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association appears to be a journal run by a group of people similar to the ones running those fish oil trials in schools out in England.
• Naturopathy
  sounds like a pseudoscience, which is the discipline the subject of the article got his degree in.

EagleFalconn (talk) 15:01, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• weak delete looks like an advert/c.v - it isn't properly referenced from reliable 3rd party sources - I can't find evidence of notability. so delete unless substantially rewritten and formatted to show said notability and reliable 3rd party references. Jasynnash2 (talk) 15:43, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment there are three references which show him to be a quack, but the article is glowing. Something is wrong when the sources say one thing, and the article is 180 degrees in the other direction. 64.107.182.4 (talk) 19:39, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as a fraud, if not speedy as spam. I'm much more inclined to believe Quackwatch than this drivel. DarkAudit (talk) 20:51, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Something is also suspicious when the author suddenly returns after a year's absence to post something so out-of-touch with the public record. Quackwatch has dozens of references to contradict virtually every point made in this article. DarkAudit (talk) 21:51, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy delete I've consulted Quackwatch, its a legitimate journal. However it limits its scope to the characterization and purification of essential oils, not uses. See [2], under 'Dubious Credentials.' For this reason, I say we push for speedy delete before the guy starts using his Wikipedia article as a sign of his credibility. EagleFalconn (talk) 04:10, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete not notable Mayalld (talk) 06:22, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment we could always remove the non-verifiable claims (most of the article) and focus on what does have sources. It'd make the article more critical, but verifiable. I guess that that point it becomes a question of notability. If he's important enough to have a rather long entry on Quackwatch, he might be enough of a nutjob to merit an article. EagleFalconn (talk) 15:33, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment With the article and the Quackwatch report so wildly contradictory (and the "rebuttal" is an attack on the people at Quackwatch), it's better to nuke this and start over. I don't see any way to reconcile these two versions of the tale. DarkAudit (talk) 17:18, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment EagleFalconn, that's what I thought, too, and I was genuinely surprised that I couldn't find any mainstream coverage of the dude to support my original plan, which was to stubbify with the verifiable info on the guy. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 17:33, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment After reading further the Notability criteria, I don't think this guy fits the bill. His work itself is not notable, though killing his kid at birth might be (see Quackwatch). Being a nutjob isn't notable either, though. I stand by my earlier delete vote.EagleFalconn (talk) 22:28, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • Facetious comment I think it is possible to be notable for being a nutjob- see Time Cube- but I don't think Young is well known even by that qualifer. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:37, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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