Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Field (swimmer)


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 20:39, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

David Field (swimmer)

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Possible hoax. Cannot find any reference to David Field winning a gold medal in 1996 Olympics. Article references are dead-linked.  ttonyb (talk) 06:03, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete. Article appears a hoax. The article subject was listed as one of the medal winners on the relevant olympics page. However, this edit simply replaced Kurt Grote with the article subject with no edit summary to indicate why, especially as Grote's article indicates he did medal in the medley relay. In addition to this, the olympics page edit was made by an anonymous IP that has made no edits to any article other than David Field and the relevant Olympics page. This is pretty much the most amateurish hoax I have seen: completely unreferenced, dead external links clearly added as an afterthought and it would seem that 98.124.71.1 (the editor of the Olympics page) is a sock of Ginklem (the article creator). It could only have been worse if it had had "This is not a hoax" at the top. Fenix down (talk) 13:51, 4 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Athletes-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:01, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Hoax. Also possible speedy deletion, the blanking of the page by the sole author Ginklem post Afd nomination could be seen as Criteria for speedy deletion G7. Author requests deletion.-- blue  520  07:23, 8 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete as hoax. Edward321 (talk) 04:16, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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