Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GEC-Marconi scientist deaths conspiracy theory
The claims of nonexistence of sources are unfounded. An AP story runs under different headlines in different newspapers, so one from 1987 may be hard to track down. A Keep !vote does not mean that I think SMERSH was assassinating the scientists, just that there was much discussion in the mainstream press of the unusual cluster of mysterious deaths. A Google News Archive search for the name "Vimal Dajibhai" produced 8 articles from 1987-88 http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=Vimal+Dajibhai&btnG=Search+Archives&num=10&lr=&as_user_ldate=1987&as_user_hdate=2008 (pay per view) which call the deaths of multiple defense scientists a "mystery" or which say Britons "demand a probe" of multiple deaths linked to the "secret defense research." These are in U.S. papers, showing the longstanding international interest in the multiple deaths. The name  "Avtar Singh Gida" http://news.google.co.uk/archivesearch?q=%22Avtar+Singh+Gida%22&btnG=Search+Archives&num=10&as_user_ldate=1986&as_user_hdate=1989 shows up in four of these same articles. "John Brittan" and Russell Smith" show up in "A BODY ADDS TO A BRITISH MYSTERY" in a U.S. paper in 1988 http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB29E1069311003&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. "Peter Peapell" shows up http://news.google.co.uk/archivesearch?q=%22Peter+Peapell%22&btnG=Search+Archives&num=10&as_user_ldate=1986&as_user_hdate=2008 in U.S. papers in 1987-88 in "A FIFTH DEFENSE SCIENTIST DIES MYSTERIOUSLY IN BRITAIN," "A BRITISH MYSTERY: 4 DEFENSE SCIENTISTS DEAD AND 1 MISSING," and "INQUIRY SOUGHT AFTER EIGHTH BRITISH SCIENTIST IS FOUND DEAD, "  an AP story March 27, 1988, printed in the Dallas Morning News, which said a UK lawmaker called for an inquiry after Terry Knight was found dead in a car from exhaust fumes, and that he was the 8th British scientist involved in defense work who died under mysterious circumstances since Augusr 1986, and that 5 of them worked for Marconi http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED3CFE4A7CF6D25&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. These all go beyond reporting a suspicious death to discussing a "mystery" and link a number of deaths together. The article needds some research in a library to track down non-online and non-free sources, but there was clearly worldwide interest in a cluster of deaths not from natural causes of a number of British defence scientists in the 1980s. This shows the topic is not |just original research or |synthesis on the part of article creators, and shows that the suspected linkage of a number of deaths had |notability. A task for editors is to pare away the inevitable add-ons of later deaths which were not linked to the 1986-88 cluster by |reliable sources such as the newspapers I cited
— User:Edison, 18:49, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:OR||WP:SYN||WP:N||WP:RS (Wikipedia:No original research)