Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ágoston Gellért


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 17:07, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Ágoston Gellért

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This article was brought to my attention on Hungarian Wikipedia. Possible hoax. Couldn't find any info on this person; the only source listed (a book called Nyelvészkutatók élete) doesn't seem to exist according to the database of the National Library; all Google mentions are from Wikipedia mirrors or other persons (both Ágoston and Gellért are moderately common given names in Hungarian). The image used in the article looks suspiciously modern. I'm not 100% sure that this person didn't exist, but his existence is not sufficiently proven in the article and I couldn't find anything that could be used as a source. – Alensha   talk  16:18, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  16:59, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions.  Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  16:59, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Hungary-related deletion discussions.  Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  16:59, 23 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment - I have not investigated the article's sources, but I have to say, the purported image of the subject sure looks like someone just ran a selfie through a bunch of Photoshop filters. Spicy (talk) 17:01, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment The image description claims it is an 1836 photograph of a self-portrait. It may be a much later photograph of an 1836 self-portrait, but there weren’t a lot of photographs in 1836. Looks pretty dubious. Mccapra (talk) 03:45, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as neither verifiability, nor notability is met. None of the Hungarian biographical encyclopaedias knows of that person, starting with the 19th-century Szinnyei till the recent Új magyar életrajzi lexikon, lingusitic handbooks summarizing the history of Finno-Ugrism do not mention the name, Hungarian National Library does not have a single record with this name. Pasztilla (talk) 07:47, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete I checked this person did not exist. I also checked several Hungarian databases, this is a hoax. Palotabarát (talk) 08:24, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Nothing in JSTOR, T&F, or Project Muse  // Timothy ::  talk  13:18, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete How this hoax managed to stay on Wikipedia for five years (!) is beyond me. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 18:35, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:V and WP:RS. Bearian (talk) 16:27, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Cannot find anything to satisfy WP:V. 24.151.50.175 (talk) 16:52, 30 July 2020 (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.