Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bloody 6th Ward


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The result was delete. Redirect seems to be only thinly supported (both in the discussion and in the sources mentioned), so leaving that out of the AfD close. RL0919 (talk) 04:26, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Bloody 6th Ward

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This 14-year old article fails to meet WP:GNG and has essentially no factual basis. The article's creator likely inserted it into the encyclopedia as a hoax. There is a 6th Ward in New Brunswick. It's an obsolete political subdivision which still gets mentioned sometimes by realtors. But no sources suggest that the ward was ever known as "bloody", nor are there any sources that support the claims about the ward's geographic boundaries, the ethnicity of its inhabitants, or the social groups who lived there and their sports rivalries. The Five Points area of New York City was once called the Bloody 6th Ward, which must be where the article creator got the idea. The one thing in the article that is supported by any kind of source is the mangled sentence about the Irish Riviera. suggests that Bucchleuch Park, a neighborhood within the 6th Ward, is also known as the Irish Riviera. The reference was added in later, by an editor trying to add whatever citations they could to an unreferenced article. Assuming this qualifies as a hoax, it would set a new record for the longest-running hoax on Wikipedia. CataracticPlanets (talk) 02:48, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 05:43, 29 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete what indeed looks like a hoax. An article on the Bloody Ould Sixth Ward may be viable (and worth writing) and so a redirect from this title to the new article could be justified. Otherwise, to continue with this jolly jape, someone would have to be mischievous enough to "improve" the article by completely rewriting it to be about the New York slum (and have Bloody Ould Sixth Ward redirect in). Thincat (talk) 10:16, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete The article was created 14 years ago. One minute after it was created, it was tagged in this edit as "", which says it all. Alansohn (talk) 12:34, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * So it does. Thincat (talk) 13:01, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. After 14 years, there still aren't any sources to verify most of the article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 14:57, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Five Points, Manhattan, which the nominator cites as having borne the name, providing there is a reference to back up the claim.Djflem (talk) 16:23, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per Alansohn. Rockphed (talk) 12:00, 30 September 2019 (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.