Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Embarrassing cheque


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The result was keep. John254 00:08, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Embarrassing cheque

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Unsubstantiated trick, doesn't even seem to be an urban legend. Fails verifiability policy. Stifle (talk) 11:17, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, weakly: it is a circulated urban legend, attested on snopes.com, and as such a valid folklore subject. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:10, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep I don't know how reliable Snopes is deemed to be by precedent, but I'd guess that it's an acceptable source. If anyone happens to have access to back issues of the Toronto Sun from 1998 they can check the source used by Snopes. Anyway, a Google search for "Anal sex and fetish perversion company" produces a mention in a book of urban legends so it does seem to be a genuine (if not true) story. I'll add that to the article. Olaf Davis | Talk 15:28, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't know that we need an article about every urban legend out there. Maybe Adam and Jamie could use physics to disprove the existence of the embarrassing cheque on an episode of MythBusters.  Mandsford (talk) 19:59, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * But we don't delete articles based on not 'needing' them - only on whether they meet relevant policies. (I know your post only said 'comment' so perhaps you weren't arguing we should, but I though I'd respond just in case.) Olaf Davis | Talk 22:51, 28 August 2008 (UTC)


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