Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Drago Montalban


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:22, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Drago Montalban

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It is not clear that this person exists. This is a possible hoax or urban legend. Entirely unreferenced, and no references can be found outside of Wikipedia mirrors. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 23:07, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. My search for references for this person found nothing and the article doesn't really say anything about him anyway, it's all about this mysterious story that doesn't seem to exist either.  If this isn't a hoax it's a good imitation.  Ubelowme U  Me  23:16, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * • Gene93k (talk) 00:57, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Speedy Delete: Per Ubelowme, plus the movie doesn't generate non-Wikipedia hits either. Seems like a hoax. -- BenTels (talk) 17:47, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yet another hoax.  Google searches for anyone with as distinctive a name as this would be productive, especially in connection with the list of luminaries that the hoax implies were interested in his work.  Likewise, the title of the supposed novel is unique, since "Dudas Gravas" means "Gravel Dreams" in Spanish (and thus suggests the creator of this hoax doesn't speak the language).  But that's also unproductive as a search term.  Sadly, as with too many of these hoaxes, there's just a tiny bit of real information intended to lead readers astray.  There really is a Scottish film student named Sandy Johnson, who really was the director of a 1980 short film Never Say Die! which really was presented at the 24th Regus London Film Festival.  It's about a black comedy about a dying man in 1940s Glasgow, and is most certainly not an adaptation of a Peruvian gothic noir novel.  The character in that film had a month to live; this hoax article deserves far less than that. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 21:10, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment. The original author of this article seems to be the Sandy Johnson mentioned above by Squeamish Ossifrage. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 00:49, 18 August 2012 (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.