Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of Exakameron


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The result was   speedy delete. I confirm Reyx's lack of results, and I speedy delete this as a hoax  DGG ( talk ) 20:03, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Battle of Exakameron

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Likely hoax. I can find no google hits for "Exakameron", "Ikhsaqemahin" or "Leo Herzschnitt" outside of Wikipedia and it's mirrors. Two of the four sources, the Journal of East African Affairs and the Transactions of the Colonial Society appear not to exist either; at least I can't find them in Google Books or Google scholar (there is a Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, but that's on a whole different continent).

I'm also suspicious of the fact that, eight minutes after it was created, the article was reviewed by an editor who has made no edits to Wikipedia before or since. At the risk of looking like I'm assuming bad faith it looks to me like it might be a sneaky way to get a hoax article out of the sight of article reviewers.

I had proposed this for deletion, but the prod was declined by an IP who felt that "Exakameron" was a spelling mistake. However, I find this implausible because one of the purported sources uses the word "Exakameron" in the title, so it is unlikely to be a spelling error. Reyk YO!  19:10, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
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