Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher Duffy


 * 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 speedily deleted by Deb as an attack page. --Core desat 02:35, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Christopher Duffy

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I am nominating this article about a British actor for several reasons: the subject is not notable by all information given in the article; the article is not verifiable due to lack of sources; the article is most probably a hoax. Detailed rationale below. -- Sent here as part of the Notability wikiproject. --B. Wolterding 15:09, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

To get a bit more into details:


 * The article claims that the actor is „most known“ for short appearances in a TV drama. This might be true, but it is not enough to establish notability by WP:BIO.
 * The artist is claimed to be an inductee of the „rock and roll hall of fame“. I was unable to verify; at least he does not seem to be in this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
 * Large parts of the article, inserted by an anonymous user, consist of unsourced statements about the private life of the subject. This information shouldn't be there in the first place.
 * No sources are given in the article, making it completely impossible to verify its content, which seems doubtable in many respects.
 * No evidence found on Google (a problem being that „Christopher Duffy“ is apparently a very common name).
 * The original author of the article, User:Duffymufc, vandalized the article Chris Duffy before.
 * The only affirming comment on the talk page was made by the original author.

Summing up, I think that at least parts of this article are a hoax. I am still not completely sure about the entire article. Opinions welcome. --B. Wolterding 15:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, speedy if possible. Most of the article is obviously crap, and you'd think that anyone who bothered to add real information about this guy--if he were a real actor--would have done something to make the article less terrible. No reason to believe any of it. Propaniac 15:23, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Even if the little bit of acting is true, it doesn't meet WP:BIO. Everything else is zero on notability. Did he meet his lover when he was 1 or when he was 17? Who cares? --Evb-wiki 15:26, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. I have a sneaking suspicion why this was done: there's a Chris Duffy who was a member of Manchester United (MUFC) back in the 90s. Perhaps the editor who wrote the article is a bit ticked that an average American baseball player gets the main space under "Chris Duffy" and not a superstar English footballer? (edited) -- Charlene 15:40, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Recommend personally turning Chris Duffy into a disambg, moving the baseball player to Chris Duffy (baseball) and creating Chris Duffy (footballer) (which I just created as a stub). Whsitchy 15:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.