Talk:Hossein Eslambolchi

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Dr. Eslambolchi is a very well renowned figure in the telecom world and is entitled to have a wiki page as much as the next person. I have only stated facts of the work he has done and its impact and it is very similar to the Steve Jobs page and various others that I looked at while writing it. If this is an advert, then so is everyone else's wikipage!

As an AT&T retiree who had some peripheral contact with Hossein Eslambolchi, I have to comment on the previous comment. Eslambolchi himself wrote this page or more likely had an employee write it, because that's what he does. You're wrong about one big thing: not everyone else's page is an advertisement, but this one definitely is. The style is Eslambolchi's signature. It sounds like the book he had AT&T employees write for him in 2005-2007 (at great expense to the corporation), "Vision 2020, by Hossein Eslambolchi" (which now of course is his URL). Yes, he's a smart guy, but his ego is many times bigger than his IQ. Despite what he may think, in 20 years, or maybe 10, he will be forgotten. Compare him to Steve Jobs? Come on, he's not in the same area code.Smboone (talk) 01:02, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also an AT&T retiree who had some contact with Eslambolchi. Hossein started at Bell Labs and gained recognition as one of the originators of a system ("FASTAR") for rapid restoration of intercity transport facilities after a failure. After he moved to AT&T, within the AT&T technical community he was mainly known for vaporware such as "The Concept of One" (see his recent linkedin version) and his behind-the-scenes support of senior management as they cut investment in the future to clean up the accounts so the company could be sold. I was intimately involved in ATT architecture discussions around 2000 and I can't recall Eslambolchi's name ever being even mentioned, much less influencing the discussions in the IETF where these things were finally sorted out. To compare him to Steve Jobs is a bad joke. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sennj (talk • contribs) 01:03, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also an AT&T retiree. "Vaporware" pretty much describes Eslambolchi's "contributions" as "leader" of AT&T Labs to a tee. I would also add that many years ago, when Eslambolchi was still at AT&T, he had a similarly self-aggrandizing Wikipedia page, which got taken down. But that was back when Wikipedia biographies were primarily for people whom one might expect will be remembered in 100 years' time, rather than what they have largely devolved into, namely a means to get your buddies to promote you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2401:FA00:8F:202:9F19:296A:848C:3A99 (talk) 07:25, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The article is written significantly without externally referenced sources, reads strongly, non-neutrally in the favor of Hossein Eslambolchi. While the page may qualify to remain, it's neutrality needs to be strongly considered and entire paragraphs and sections need to be re-written with sources, or removed entirely. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.41.12 (talk) 05:40, 20 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]