Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boyd Bushman
to List of hoaxes. Per . He was never noticed or publicized until the hoaxalicious 2014 Youtube video, since taken down at the demand of some supposed copyright holder. Reliable sources have not been supplied so far to establish that he was a prominent scientist at a major company. It seems clear that a Boyd B. Bushman existed, born 20 July 1936 in Arizona, the son of Mitchell Smith Bushman and Glenda Porter Bushman. How would hoaxers have inserted him and his parents and siblings in the 1940 census for Show Low, Arizona? I also found him in the 1956 and 1960 yearbooks for Brigham Young University, and in telephone directories from 1994 through 2002 for Lewisville, Texas, all in databases at Ancestry.com. It is also dubious that a funeral home would publish phony details of his funeral. None  of this makes him notable. No newspaper articles, journal articles, or book references have been found other than for the 2014 Youtube video, except for the supposed 1999 video (a barren entry at IMDB, which is not a reliable source). (added: a few fringe sources at Google Scholar, in the UFOlogy, antigravity, and zeropoint energy ream mention him a having been  a scientist at Lockheed, as far back as 2002. ) The tabloid publications talking about the Youtube video are not reliable sources.  If he secured numerous patents and assigned them to Lockheed, then it is high plausible he worked there at some time in some capacity, as an employee or contractor, in the years the patents were issued. 99.99% of those who worked in some capacity at Lockheed or his other claimed employers  are nonnotable, and neither are most persons securing patents notable.  The 2014 video (see Snopes' discussion) has sufficient coverage to justify including it in a list of hoaxes, and a redirect is preferable to having people repeatedly create articles about him and his absurd claims
— User:Edison, 00:31, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:BLP1E (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)