Deletion of V. David Sánchez A.

Comment: in view of the total lack of second-party sources, , and the controversy over whether parts of the article are a hoax or not. If he really were an IEEE Fellow, then he would clearly pass , but our only evidence for that is an uploaded image of a certificate that could easily have been doctored, and the evidence against (lack of mention on IEEE web site, lack of many IEEE publications, especially recent IEEE journal publications that would list the fellow status in the author byline) is strong. We can argue about whether editing ''Neurocomputing'' (which does seem to be verifiable) is enough for notability after we have sources
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Comment: notability is not demonstrated; editorship of a journal notwithstanding. Note: I declined to delete this under #A3 (hoax) because it wasn't obviously a hoax, and further investigation seemed to point toward it being more or less genuine. But I still don't think the subject is notable. See the article's talk page for one or two minor details
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Comment: Too many  and  problems here. The claim to being an IEEE Fellow is almost certainly either false or misleading. Being an elected IEEE Fellow is a permanent designation (basically until the person dies). The fact that, as Ruud notes, Sanchez' name does not appear in the list of IEEE Fellows at the IEEE website http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/alphabetical/index.html indicates that the claim is likely false. Moreover the wording used in the article - "He was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Fellow Award in 1995" - suggests that it may have been a grant (research or travel fellowship rather than being elected an IEEE Fellow), which is not what  #C3 has in mind. The article also says that "In 1997, Sánchez was invited to become a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). " Being a member of AAAS is no honor at all - ''anybody'' can join AAAS by filling out an application form and paying a fee; being an elected Fellow of AAAS is a significant honor but Sanchez is not an AAAS Fellow. The only serious claim to fame here is having been the editor-in-chief of ''Neurocomputing''. I checked the JCR and this journal is listed there under the category "computer science, artificial intelligence". In 2010 it has the impact factor of 1.442, which ranks it no. 50 among the journals in that category. Moreover, looking up the impact factor for the journal for the previous years shows that in 2006 it had the impact factor of 0.86 and in 2007 of 0.85, considerably less than the current impact factor. The article says that Sanchez was editing the journal for the first 15 years of its existence, that is, presumably from 1989 to around 2005. It appears that during that time the journal had much more marginal standing than even its current modest no 50 ranking in the "computer science, artificial intelligence" category. I do not think that this satisfies #C8. There are quite a few other red flags here. The citation record for his work in GoogleScholar, and the WebofScience is minimal, almost non-existent. Also, even for the run-of-the mill researchers in any given field, a plain google search for their name usually produces a large number of hits giving links to conference and seminar talks by these researchers. Googling gives almost nothing of the sort here. All in all, too fishy, too self-promotional, and has too many  and  issues
Stance: delete
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