Talk:Michel Barsoum

COI tag (January 2026)

This article is literally UPEs all the way down, there's multiple different sock rings involved at this point. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 15:00, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Secondary sources

hello @Bearian @Padgriffin, I spent some time trying to find secondary sources for this bio and here is what I found in order of usefulness.

1. Article about the history of MAX phases, talks about his research involvement
2. Similar article by someone else also unrelated.
3. brief mention of him discovering MXenes
4. Award citation from the giving agency not him
5. another award from the giving organization not him
6. textbook from publisher, still looking to see if I can find a review of it as a 20 year old textbook with multiple editions.

I understand the issue with UPE but for me its easier to trim down than write up so I am hoping we can get this into a salvageable state. Moritoriko (talk) 00:12, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Great! Moritoriko, please add what you think are the three best yo the article, and I'll deprod it. That will give you a few more days. Bearian (talk) 01:40, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Done on that. Still trimming more, trying to figure out what is actually a good award and read through the research is rough ^-^ Moritoriko (talk) 03:40, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

I have removed the PROD. Clean not PROD please. Ldm1954 (talk) 19:16, 29 January 2026 (UTC)