User talk:Oski Bancroft

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Benois v. West's Dept. Stores, Inc.
Hi, do you have any sources for this page? You write that the case was "hailed as a groundbreaking case in the struggle for transgender rights," yet I find a grand total of zero Google hits for "Caleb Benois", "Benois v. West's Dept. Stores, Inc" and related searches. Hairhorn (talk) 19:46, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Benois v. West's Dept. Stores, Inc.


The article Benois v. West's Dept. Stores, Inc. has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Strongly suspect this is a hoax. Not quite obvious enough to slap a Speedy tag, however.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Safiel (talk) 04:18, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

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I have deleted this article because, if such a case were really "hailed as a groundbreaking case" there would surely be some mention of it on-line. Wikipedia's WP:Verifiability policy is that: "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source."

I will restore the article if you are able to provide reliable sources to verify what it says, but until then, even if it is real, it comes under the important instruction in the policy WP:Biographies of living persons that: "'Contentious material about living persons... that is unsourced or poorly sourced – whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable – should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion.'"

If you can provide sources, leave a note of them below here. JohnCD (talk) 18:44, 24 February 2013 (UTC)