Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/"Sid Arthur" and associated articles


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was  d elete. - Mailer Diablo 12:36, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

"Sid Arthur" and associated articles

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There is a small walled garden of four articles: Sid Arthur; two of his supposed novels, Cats in the Attic and Covered in Bees; and his supposed biographer, Phillip Smith (journalist). All the works referenced are unknown to Google beyond Wikipedia and answers.com. Somebody by the name of Sid Arthur is listed on imdb.com, but there's no evidence for this set of articles. It looks and smells like a hoax to me. William Avery 15:45, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I notice it has also been used in vandalism here William Avery 16:28, 15 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete the whole set of associated articles unless some citations can be provided that demonstrate these novels/people exist; I couldn't find any confirmation at all. Accounting4Taste 16:03, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete these manifest hoaxes. (The ISBN given for the supposed paperback edition of Cats in the Attic, for instance, is actually that for an edition of A Clockwork Orange.) Get rid of the images as well. Deor 16:23, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless proved otherwise this appears to be a hoax. Googling the individual "works" led back only to this article. Looking for the books on Amazon and ebay produced no hits. There were no obituaries for this individual on the websites of the UK broadsheets produced no hits, nor could an obit be found for a former "The Sun" columnist "Bustopher Jones" in that paper's website. Arthur can be found on both TV shows mentioned and the only tangible result was the IMDb entries and Sid Arthur (though IMDb can possibly be hoaxed too). An alternative spelling of Syd Arthur produced only hits for a Kent band. Checking the edit histories these articles appeared more or less in the final form the product of a single editor.KTo288 20:26, 15 September 2007 (UTC)KTo288 20:27, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I suspect the imdb entry is for a genuine, if minor, US TV scriptwriter with this name. There are three users: User:William_Golder, User:Sy234sn, and User:Rev Craig Gannon involved in inserting the actual hoax material. William Avery 21:20, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * There does seem to be a Sid Arthur that was a scriptwriter on Happy Days all right, from what I can find. But he has nothing to do with the subject of this article.  FlowerpotmaN &middot;( t ) 21:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete As a hoax, and takeoff of the name Siddhartha. Calgary 20:32, 15 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete as hoax. No reliable sources; none of the works mentioned seem to have made their way to Google. If there was a Sid Arthur that was so important in the history of "Kitchen Sink" drama, and got an OBE, there would be sources online. I think this article "jumped the shark" when the IMDB link to a real Sid Arthur was added. FlowerpotmaN &middot;( t ) 21:37, 15 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete as hoax. The London Gazette archive shows nobody of this name receiving an OBE in any relevant year. --Rodhullandemu 00:43, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all. I think there's an element of an Eddie Izzard-related joke going on here ("Sid Arthur" is a minor character in one of his routines and "I'm Covered In Bees" is one of Izzard's more famous catchphrases). BigHaz - Schreit mich an 01:32, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - seems to be made up. If you want a redirect target, consider Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen where SidArthur was the name of a fictional rock band. - fchd 07:35, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as per all evidence mentioned here. J Milburn 13:40, 16 September 2007 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.