Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Enrico Pallazzo (2nd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was   redirect to  The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!. full prot on redirect Xavexgoem (talk) 16:32, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Enrico Pallazzo
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Enrico Pallazzo is the name of a fictional opera singer impersonated by Lt. Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) in the film The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!. An earlier AfD apparently redirected this article to that film's article. Some months later, an editor with a grand total of three contributions (all related to this article) created the article again. This time it is supposedly about an actual individual, a deceased man who worked in the field of advertising. I suspect the article is a hoax— —but am using AfD instead of anything more drastic because I'm not completely sure. If the result is to delete, may I suggest a sprinkle of salt? (If it isn't a hoax and the result is keep, the notability has got to be established once and for all.) Rivertorch (talk) 09:39, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
 * its subject's claim of notability lies in a mention of something—"the Creative Revolution"—that is redlinked;
 * the article is entirely unsourced;
 * one of the two external links is dead and the other leads to an English-language entry on a German-language Google Books page (!) that, while evidently relating to advertising, makes no mention of Enrico Pallazzo (it does mention "the Creative Revolution" but the context is unclear);
 * the wording is suspicious;
 * a Google search for Enrico Pallazzo and Creative Revolution results only in Wikipedia-derived pages
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Advertising-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 13:16, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 13:16, 3 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete while that was certainly a memorable scene, this is a character with maybe a minute of screen time, tops. The rest of the article is some kind of hoax/nonsense/etc. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  13:47, 3 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete as a hoax or a coincidence of names in which the Mexican individual fails GNG. This from WP's piece on The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!: "During the Queen's visit to a California Angels baseball game, Jane tells Frank that one of the team's players will conduct the assassination. While hiding from his fellow policemen, who are now under orders to arrest him, Frank first attempts to disguise himself as the opera singer Enrico Pallazzo, brutally singing the U.S. national anthem along the way, and manages to secure the position of the home plate umpire and begins calling the game while simultaneously frisking all players for weapons." Carrite (talk) 16:45, 3 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment - Leaving a redirect to The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! would be appropriate. Carrite (talk) 16:47, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment - This was previously the above-mentioned redirect, hoaxed up by single-purpose editor Heyits in 2008, I see from the edit history. This is definitely a hoax. Carrite (talk) 16:51, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, that was my impression. But resurrecting the redirect seems both unnecessary and unwise: the name is low-hanging fruit for anyone who has just watched the movie and is feeling playful, and this bogus version sat here for three years, mirrored on countless sites, its content copied onto blogs and Facebook and even translated into other languages. (See this for just one example: they saw it on Wikipedia and believed it.) That's why I suggested salting it. Rivertorch (talk) 17:59, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I dunno. I've always considered it harder to convert a standing redirect page into a content page than it is to create a new content page from scratch. Obviously this case has shown that it CAN be done, but unless you're suggesting Delete-and-Salt, a redirect would seem to me more of a deterrent to vandalism that a simple deletion, which can easily be recreated. Carrite (talk) 16:59, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeed. I suggested deleting and salting. Twice. If it helps, I'll suggest it a third time now. :) Rivertorch (talk) 17:44, 4 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete and salt - I am reverting back to b4 the hoax - its been published and mirrored by en wikipedia for plenty long enough.  You  really  can  11:47, 5 February 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.