Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Buck Rogers (western)


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The result was speedy delete as a hoax. This seems to be more of a hoax by way of a mistake than a deliberate one, so I'm not going to archive this to the hoax museum. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:10, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Buck Rogers (western)

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A supposed western version of Buck Rogers, I've searched everywhere for this-no luck as you might of guessed I get the actual Buck Rogers. I tried to look up with Tom Mix-again no luck. I believe this is a hoax! Wgolf (talk) 01:15, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete based on what might have been an honest error as compared to a hoax. Buck Jones is a film cowboy from that era who had worked with Tom Mix. The Buck Rodgers article suggests that Jones was the source of the name for Rogers. In any format, this remains an unsourced Bio article which can be deleted.-- &#9790;Loriendrew&#9789;  &#9743;(ring-ring)  02:14, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Article is from before 2010 so it can't go under unsourced bios, also this mentions being a character not a real person. Wgolf (talk) 02:16, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Not to mention that its obvious part of it is Roy Rogers-with the whole Trigger part! Surprise its been around so long! Wgolf (talk) 03:05, 23 April 2016 (UTC)


 * It looks like this was restored by . I'm willing to delete it or move it to the hoax pages, but I'd like to hear Anthony's explanation as to why he restored it back in 2005 just in case there are sources out there. I searched and found nothing to suggest that there was ever a series of cowboy films or stories with a character with this specific name. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  03:35, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah I saw that also-I was wondering why it was restored over 10 years ago. Well it looks like we will have the king of the longest running hoax page before long. But yeah when I was looking at really old articles tagged as unreferenced I had to see what this was when I saw it's title. Wgolf (talk) 03:41, 23 April 2016 (UTC)


 * The edit history and logs of Buck Rogers (western) show that I edited or created it twice in December 2005 and never after that, and that I never undeleted it - that may have been before I became an admin. The edit history of page Buck Rogers (the spaceman) show that I edited it on and before 10 December 2005 and never after that. Way back before Wikipedia or even simple internet email groups started, I heard several times by various routes of a Western comic-book scenario with 2 cowboys called Buck Rogers and Tom Mix and a horse called Trigger, and that in the (original version of) the Buck Rogers spaceman scenario, "Buck" Rogers had another birth-forename (in one text fiction book, William) and that "Buck" was a nickname after the fictional cowboy. If this is not provable due to error, or due to loss of sources in the passage of years as people throw away or destroy old comic books, then you may as well delete page Buck Rogers (western). I am sorry if I caused trouble. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:57, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Eh, it's cool. You don't normally do stuff without a reason, so I was hoping that you'd have sourcing or something like that. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:01, 23 April 2016 (UTC)


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