Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brazilian copperfish


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The result was   delete as a hoax.  bibliomaniac 1  5  04:16, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Brazilian copperfish

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Hoax, per RDS and the anons who edited it earlier today. --fvw *  02:32, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete, as well as searching FishBase, I have also googled under both its alleged English-language name and its alleged Portuguese-language name, and apart from mirrors of wp, and some blog-type sites, I have found nothing about this fish. Googling the alleged biologist who "discovered" it turns up a high school student in Lebanon, USA, and it is to be noted that the original creator of the article has also edited the wp entry for this place. I can find no reference to a subfamily "Kurbanus" on FishBase or elsewhere, and sharp-eyed editors may have already noticed the last four letters of that word, which, taken with the evidence I have outlined above, are also suggestive of a hoax. DuncanHill (talk) 02:42, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Additional have now also tried Encyclopedia of Life, and cannot find it there either. DuncanHill (talk) 02:59, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Subfamily: Kurbanus, named after Michael Kurban?! - Delete. &mdash; Sebastian 02:43, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. A staple of Brazilian cuisine, and it had to wait until 1936 to get recognized? That smells fishy. Also, the picture sure looks like a photoshop montage. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 02:46, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Obvious hoax.Redddogg (talk) 02:47, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Per all of above. Still, despite the giveaways a fairly admirable job. JNW (talk) 02:53, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. The only non-WP-based online mention of peixes de cobre seems to be a Google Books hit for a Portuguese dictionary of modern painting, describing surrealistic elements in the work of the Italian painter Carlo Carrà. Deor (talk) 03:28, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I know the person who created this as a hoax, and its a shame that some websites took it for real —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.95.49.236 (talk) 04:05, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


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