Talk:Renzo Picasso

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Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... (your reason here) --Stardest (talk) 02:01, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Renzo Picasso's vision helped developing the criteria to build modern cities. Although he is very little known today (almost completely unknown, perhaps i should say) his projects for new cities where new buildings would grow vertically rather than horizontally, therefore leaving vital space for parks, squares and gardens, were quite well known at his time and therefore his view was very influencial. he might be regarded, together with antonio sant'elia, as one of the fathers of skyscrapers and of the concepts behind the developement of modern cities. even before sant'elia! i myself only came accross his name accidentally, reading old books on architecture, industrial design and engeneering. even here on the net it seems to be very hard to find more, more detailed infos on him. hope this page can stay and we can improve it together. thanx

I strongly suspect this is a hoax

I stumbled upon this randomly and I strongly suspect it is a hoax. I removed one so-called reference that was nothing by the coincidence of the names Renzo Piano and Pablo Picasso in a list. I followed up reference a second in something that tried to look official but was poorly written and on a site I have no reason to believe has any legitimacy. Since it is also an "anyone can contribute" sort of site, I think they, too, have been hoaxed. I see no reason to believe http://www.renzopicasso.com/ is anything other than an elaboration of the same hoax. http://www.frcs.it/index.php/news/6/15/Viaggio-in-Liguria-n%C3%82-2 leads to nothing of any apparent relevance. - Jmabel | Talk 04:30, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The only thing I can find online that has any plausibility at all is an essay by Gian Luca Porcile that may have appeared in a real book, but WorldCat shows no listing for the book in question, so again I suspect a hoax. I don't see any evidence that Gian Luca Porcile is any actual scholar; the only other vaguely academic reference to this name I can find online is a supposed paper called "The Essence of Absence" supposedly co-authored with one Paola Sabbion, but when I follow up (1) the paper itself is not online, which is reasonable enough but (2) nothing connected to Paola Sabbion mentions Gian Luca Porcile as a collaborator. - Jmabel | Talk 04:39, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore, the primary author of this article Stardest (talk · contribs) has no other significant contributions. - Jmabel | Talk 05:18, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]