Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edith Burghart


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The result was   Speedy delete, non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 08:35, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Edith Burghart

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I believe this is a hoax. Clues include:

a) Google has apparently never heard of Edith Burghart

b) the image is supposed to date back to 1848 but it is way too clean, it shows her writing on what looks like a pretty modern notebook and Commons' metadata shows that the image was taken with an iPhone X (not many of these were around in 1848)

c) despite the claim made in the article, she does not appear in List of Drunk History episodes

d) the whole story makes no sense whatsoever : mid 19th-century secretary (secretaries were actually pretty rare in pre-typewriter days) convinces two well-established journalists to found a new newspaper based on her vision.

e) The fifth reference is to her published journals. Worldcat has never heard of this book supposedly published in 2017. Pichpich (talk) 18:22, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 18:45, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
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 * Speedy delete as hoax. Ran a text search of references in google books and on the NYPL website; none of them talk about her. Ref #5 doesn't exist. Ref #1 seems not to exist. Images are clearly fake. The woman in the second "Drunk History" one is the same as the one in the infobox; the one in the infobox is tagged both as the uploader's own work and as having been taken in 1848. Also Wyatt Feldman, the supposed author of the last ref doesn't exist either--ran a LinkedIn search too to see if he was former faculty but nope. And the photo on his Medium profile is stolen off the website of a dude named Klaus. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 19:21, 8 November 2018 (UTC)


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