Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Francesco Ferro Milone

Hello. Please excuse me for posting in English, but I don't speak Italian. To cut the long story short -- on Polish breakfast TV a segment was aired on magical glasses that cure depression. Their credibility is probably obvious: [1] - basing on Polish version and my quick research, the device is not certified or proven to help by any credible medical authority, and basing on their pseudoscientific description they are basically glasses with a LED light tacked on, and the remark about not using their glasses while charging suggests that the device is not double insulated, which would pretty much be a requirement for any device that is supposed to be used by patients. This is the boring part.

The unfortunate part is that Polish version of the website: [2] -- upon clicking on the picture of the professor in the bottom -- redirects to Wikipedia article: Francesco Ferro Milone. I don't speak much of Italian, but the section "Il progetto Mnemosline", partially written in Caps Lock seems to speak for itself. The article features a list of his publications, but I am not sure this is enough to support notability. The author of the article -- Simona crippa -- has contributed only to two articles -- on neurosurgery and Francesco Ferro Milone

I did a bit of research and although the professor seems to have existed: [3] -- but his last published work I could find is from 1989. His research work seems to be unrelated to any type of depression treatment or influence of light stimulation on brain activity. There also exists a ResearchGate website: [4] -- but his latest articles don't seem to be published in reputable journals, if published at all.

I would like to ask you for help, because although I suspect hoax here, I don't know Italian. I have used Google Translate, but this will not be sufficient to see if the article is notable, refers to an existing person, and the claims are supported by research. I'm also wondering if there's anything that could be done about using Wikipedia for supporting, to put it gently, a product that has not been proven to cure anything.

Thanks for your support and best regards, Technozaba (msg) 23:01, 26 ott 2021 (CEST)

Hey @Technozaba, thanks for your message. I think you're right, there is something wrong with the article. Thanks for informing us, we'll take it from there and try to fix this. I'll go and cut some of the most blatant things off, then we'll see if it's gonna be a deletion case or not. Dziękuję! :) --Sannita - L'admin (a piede) libero 00:06, 27 ott 2021 (CEST)

I've looked through their website and there's this news:

http://mnemosline.it/senza-categoria/accordo-di-distribuzione-europeo-con-plazanet-medical/

The professor seems to know of the existence of the device, and I guess Plazanet Medical is the polish reseller --79.2.175.115 (msg) 12:12, 4 nov 2021 (CET)

I came across this article, since there was an article on the local newspaper. This guy died some days ago and some people paid the local newspaper to make a long article, to celebrate this person. The article in the newspaper talked about this genius who invented such incredible glasses to cure depression. As a scientist, this sounds to me like a hoax.

Well.. this article in wikipedia seems to be written by a relative of the person (if not the person himself): history of his life is full of unnecessary details, which looks to me written for the purpose to celebrate this guy. What's the purpose to know that he was "taking a train, riding a bike, walking with soldiers during the second world war" ? (the whole section seems to me absurd) .

it is unclear to me what relevance this person has in order to be in wikipedia. He didn't do anything so extraordinary to be listed in wikipedia. Am i wrong?

Shouldn't be this article deleted?

moreover, this story about this glasses well.. well... it sounds to me really like a hoax and as far as i understood there's not scientific evidence. --151.51.220.84 (msg) 23:47, 23 lug 2022 (CEST)