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Egregious WP:VERIFY violations[edit]

This article relies all but entirely on sources closely associated with the subject—indeed 13 of 15 citations are his publications—fully preventing the article from being neutral, and making impossible to verify any claims to the originality or primacy of his ideas or inventions.

Moreover, the article has multiple further issues. For the reasons noted above, its neutrality must be checked. Moreover, there are whole sections devoid of any citation whatsoever, in complete affront to WP:VERIFY. Finally, essentially all citations appearing are to primary sources.

In short, this biography of a living person desperately needs its first reliable, independent, secondary sources regarding the title BLP subject, before any direct (versus further WP:OR) verification of content can take place.

These issues have been in place since 2014, at least. Le Prof 73.211.138.148 (talk) 23:24, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If the article isn't semiprotected, go ahead and add sources yourself. If it is, find and post them here and somebody who is registered will add them. Finding them is often the biggest problem. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 23:27, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, I've removed the ridiculous number of cn/why?/full tags added by the IP. There is no reason to place those templates after every single unsourced statement. I'm sure some of them were valid, but when no thought was given to placing them, I see no reason to give thought to removing them all in turn. Primefac (talk) 03:28, 3 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]