Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Enema bandit


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Result was Keep. - Caknuck 07:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Enema bandit

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This is really odd. First up, there is some kind of folklore at least behind this; a Frank Zappa song forms most of the 130 or so unique Googles for "Michael Kenyon" "enema bandit". The article cites a few loacl newspaper stories of the time. But when it comes to online sources, there are just three: Wikipedia, Frank Zappa fan-chat, and comments about a porn film allegedly inspired by this. There isn't even a Snopes story that I can find. We don't know if the subject is still alive, and we know absolutely nothing about him other than this purported case. Guy (Help!) 20:11, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment It's definitely a real case from what I can tell, this might help. One Night In Hackney 303 20:28, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Obvious Keep after Hackney's sourcing. Stammer 20:58, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Evidently a well-reported criminal with a significant pop culture legacy. EALacey 21:49, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. I decided to be bold and move this to his legal name and create a disambiguation page, so the author Michael Kenyon doesn't have the word "enema" in his article. Jokestress 21:50, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep This series of crimes was in Illinois papers for a 9 year period, and became more widely known through a Frank Zappa song. If he had done it once, and had one story, it would not be notable, but I think that even more news articles could be found than are included in the references, which are enough to satisy WP:N and the quality of the references satisfies WP:A. It reminds me of The Mad Gasser of Mattoon. Edison 21:59, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong keep : Like the nominator, I also thought this was a hoax. But an archive search for old newspaper articles from the time period shows many mentions of the subject in the newspapers of 1970s. I suggest the nominator to do a google news archive search using the terms ... that will bring up many references. Thanks. --Ragib 22:28, 29 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Please check out the numerous newspaper reports here. --Ragib 22:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)


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