Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 Turkey UFO sightings


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 16:51, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

2008 Turkey UFO sightings

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Our guidelines for writing articles about these kinds of subjects explicitly warn against using News-of-the-Weird (in The Daily Telegraph as such a story) or slow news day reporting to establish notability of an event of dubious provenance. Tabloid journalism is right out (using The Sun as a reliable source as is done in this article is pretty embarrassing). In this case, a cursory investigation led to the conclusion that this brouhaha was over a hoax perpetuated by a single individual. There is not likely to be any further development of sources which would satisfy our independent sourcing requirements and this remains essentially a WP:ONEEVENT problem here. jps (talk) 12:55, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Turkey-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:17, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:17, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Paranormal-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:17, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator arguments that I share. (Also I was there at the time and did not see anything. :-) --Why should I have a User Name? (talk) 17:46, 19 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per nominator, no notability, few poor quality sources, one hoax by one person with no significant coverage. - - MrBill3 (talk) 07:28, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
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