Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blue Orchid Scandal

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE   &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 05:26, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Blue Orchid Scandal
Hoax. -- Longhair | Talk 10:17, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete -- Longhair | Talk 10:17, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ambi 10:23, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax. JamesBurns 11:08, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep 'User:JoJo'
 * Keep This is well verified and cross-referenced by municipal reports in the state archives. A lack of google information is probably more indicative of a lack of Australian politics on the internet rather than inaccuracy.Jamesss 13:14, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- 'JoJo 13:26, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)JoJo'
 * Comment: You've voted twice JoJo? -- Longhair | Talk 13:48, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Apologies, but clearly I have done so under my username, not as a sock puppet. 'JoJo 14:01, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)JoJo', merely a typo.
 * Your username is a sockpuppet. Delete jglc | t | c 15:16, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. --W(t) 13:39, 2005 Jun 16 (UTC)
 * Keep 203.129.46.232 13:55, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This is why 14-year-olds should be banned from the Internet. Proto 14:35, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete &mdash; Appears to be more sophisticated than a 14-year-old. Possibly someone with a political agenda. Probably should also check all other articles by original contributor. &mdash; RJH 15:14, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --Habap 15:14, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * CommentMugasaurus 15:24, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) Freaky how it looks so real!
 * Delete, hoax by uni student(s). Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 15:15, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unverified and the sockpuppets don't help. --Etacar11 16:40, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep, I wrote this article, the one on Higgins, Robertson and the Commune, and although they are clearly false (the Australian administrator who corrected the links and catagorized it early this morning has no excuse :-p) the several other spinoff articles which my less articulate friends wrote demonstrates how self-perpetuating the phenonemon can be. It seems an article like "painted whore" gets immediately cross checked and tagged for deletion, yet "the blue orchid scandal" is placed in the catagory 'australian political controversies" because it presumably was written eloquently enough to covince the administrators of its veracity. My arguement is this article should be kept as a monument to the historiographically duplicitious manner in which history is perceived and accepted. In saying that I'm quite aware this article will be deleted in the pseudo-fascist fashion by which all information that is poorly written, "not notable", or not immediately verifiably by the Oracle of Delphi (otherwise known as Google) inevitably is. Phantasmogoria 19:17, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * If you say it will be deleted, well, what choice do we have but to do so? jglc | t | c 19:26, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I watched The Muppet Movie earlier today. I've seen enough puppets. --Xcali 22:07, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Elaborate sock supported hoax. Capitalistroadster 01:54, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Hoax. Too many sockpuppets. Sjakkalle (Check!)  06:55, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep in memory of wik stupidity at having endorsed it to begin with, I recommend it is kept but a label "joke" is added- 'Hotpants 07:07, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)Hotpants'
 * Users only edits are to vote keep on Longhair's VFD nominations. Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:13, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * If we admits it's fake, delete it- 'TagTeam 07:44, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)TagTeam'
 * Users only edits are to vote keep on Longhair's VFD nominations (even though this one is a delete vote (?)). Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:47, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Sockpuppet-backed hoax. This is a recording. --FCYTravis 09:13, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - admitted false pseudo-postmodernist rubbish backed up by sockpuppets - Skysmith 10:49, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm reversing my vote to Keep, I've confirmed most of these hoax articles using my sophisticated Google searching techniques. Excelsior! AIphax 19:02, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Above impostor vote actually by AIphax. A &#1080; D &#1103; 01D  TALK  EMAIL  19:10, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
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