Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bouckidji


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The result was delete --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:32, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Bouckidji

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There's not a shred of good evidence this place exists, sure it's Africa so good sources may not be available. However, the simplest searches found nothing and the only links are the listed ones and the website no longer exists (probably a website of fabricated information as well). For a village apparently started in 1983 and the article started September 2009, it's interesting there's not a single link for it. SwisterTwister  talk  23:15, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: I will defer to those with local expertise before declaring this a long-term hoax; but I will note that creating and editing this article six years ago represent the creator's only mainspace contributions. In my experience that is a major red flag in these situations. Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:03, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. &mdash;&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·E·C) 03:03, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. No reliable references exist for this village from sources inside or outside Congo. Google Maps and Google Earth indicate nothing. The idea of a village with "only 11 houses" but 900 inhabitants, before the supposed increase in 2008, is not totally inconceivable but dubious. The Education and Weather sections clearly have little substantive content. The only reference at all I've found for the "Barangala tribe" supposedly inhabiting this village comes from James George Frazer's 1910 work Totemism and Exogamy, but that refers to a group in Australia, not Congo. All of this seems to add up to a long-lived hoax. Calamondin12 (talk) 12:40, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete No coverage in independent, reliable sources to verify or sustian article or to even verify the existence of the place. I could not find it listed on GeoNames either. J bh  Talk  17:44, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete as no sources have been found that verify its existence. I can't find anything about the Barangala but apparently Bahangala is a subgroup of the Kongo people, and there's a place called Simouloukouni somewhere between Kindamba and Mindouli. IP 196.12.10.5 has edited several articles about places in Namibia and the Republic of the Congo, including some created by editors with few or no other contributions, and most are verifiable as places (exceptions are this and N'kosso). Peter James (talk) 23:02, 25 July 2015 (UTC)


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