Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cara Saunders


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Request from the subject, concerns as to the accuracy and verifiability of the article, and as to whether the subject would meet the inclusion guidelines even if accurate, all add up to a Delete close. Davewild (talk) 18:29, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Cara Saunders

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I am posting a deletion request on behalf of the subject of this article reference OTRS 2012061810009479.

This is my official request to have the article deleted due to the entire article being false. Thank you, Cara Saunders. Tiptoety talk 04:07, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Umm... what exactly does that mean? Every statement there is untrue? The references are fraudulent? --BDD (talk) 16:37, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
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The article on Cara Saunders was published roughly 4 years ago under false pretenses. Ms. Saunders is indeed a native and resident of the Bahamas, and had a stellar college career from 2002 - 2005. However, any suggestion of her having participated in track and field beyond Hastings College and Gardner-Webb College is completely false. There have never been any articles published on her. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crichardson2004 (talk • contribs) 19:20, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't like this at all. Why does the lead say "Casey Victoria Samuel" and the article "Cara Saunders"?  I'm not clear on what the Junior Olympics is, but this list of results doesn't list anyone under either name.  Why is there no mention of her on thenassauguardian.com, nassauguardian.net, or thebahamasweekly.com?  The Freeport News have no mention of the cited story on its website. All the web coverage about her appears derived from Wikipedia.  The references are vague, without page numbers for books or publication date for the newspaper story.  There's nothing that definitely says hoax but cumulatively I'm suspicious.  What do other people think?  --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:46, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. I agree with Colapeninsula that the mismatches in the article are deeply worrying; in addition to this, I can't find any coverage about her online, so it looks like she doesn't pass WP:BIO. I'm not too convinced about the sources in the article either: I couldn't find any mention of the Nassau Guardian piece online, a search of Craton & Saunders (2007) turned up no results, and I could not find any mentions of the Freeport News piece other than on Wikipedia and its mirrors. And finally, even if we were able to verify the sporting achievements in the article, they wouldn't satisfy WP:NTRACK, as they were junior events. — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 14:20, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
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