Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canadian Hoaxes


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The result was delete. Deor (talk) 12:56, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Canadian Hoaxes

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Kind of weird - it is a bit like listcruff (about Canadian hoaxes, obviously), but it tries to wrap in some weird WP:OR about why Canada is liable to hoaxes because there is nothing better to do up there (probably true). I mulled trying to save it because it gets better lower down, but ultimately, unless there is a serious scientific paper about Canadian propensity for hoaxes, it will never be better that just listcruff. --Legis (talk - contribs) 11:38, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions.  Jinkinson   talk to me  12:11, 2 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete or merge with --something. the article so far is a big bunch of WP:OR. unsourced speculative bits like " The geography of Canada encourages people to defraud others. From the vast ice fields in the north and all the mountains and wildlife, Canada is a broad area full of mystery and the unknown. For that reason it is very easy for residents or outsiders to make up myths to defraud the public. " reek of original research. Cramyourspam (talk) 12:34, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - I was initially thinking of a selective merge to List of hoaxes, but none of the hoaxes given in the article have any iota of notability. Also full of OR. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 12:40, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete appears to be synthesis, and inadequate sourcing. Nwlaw63 (talk) 13:43, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:50, 3 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOR and WP:SYNTH. While it's true that Canada has a lot of sparsely-populated wilderness, for one thing, the vast majority of Canadian people actually do live in real honest-to-goodness towns and cities where there's actually real honest-to-goodness stuff to do besides sitting around making shit up for kicks — so we'd need real reliable sourcing to verify the claim that Canada is prone to an unusually large number of hoaxes, rather than relying on an unsourced assertion that smacks of POV theorizing. And I doubly love the fact that the creator isn't even accurately reading the few sources they are citing — the "Coleman Frog", according to the source, was found in 1885 in a "Killarney Lake" near Fredericton, New Brunswick, but the creator wrongly placed the discovery in Killarney Lakelands and Headwaters Provincial Park — which is in Ontario, not New Brunswick, and didn't exist until 2006. Any of these three items might qualify for a standalone article, if they can be properly sourced — but wrapping them up into a POV essay about a purported tendency to hoaxery as some kind of uniquely Canadian phenomenon (as if every populated country on earth didn't also have dozens or hundreds of its own hoaxes and folklore items too) isn't the way to get them in here. Bearcat (talk) 18:26, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
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