Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ezakiah Valentine


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 11:08, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Ezakiah Valentine

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No sources. I can't find anything about this person on google books, google scholar, or google news archive. This article was created by an IP user in 2005 and there have been no substantive changes since then. Seems likely to be a hoax. Prezbo (talk) 20:50, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

I am also nominating International Rejectionism, Valentine's purported most famous theory. It was created by the same user at the same time, and I can't find any sources on it either:




 * Delete. Yes, I smell a musty British humor hoax as well. What's interesting is how the article was crafted to sound plausible enough to people not paying close attention, but be revealed as a hoax to anyone reading closely.  I'm sure there's more to the joke I'm not catching.  Plus he dropped the term in a few other places, like this fake yahoo answer here.  And thus these two articles sailed along for four happy years, getting a few random bot hits here and there, I suppose  -- I mean, who is going to google these terms, save for some night at the pub when the author showed off his wikipwning skills, surely impressing all the females.  Also, International Rejectionism would be be a good name for a fake punk band; let me dub their first album Speedy Delete. --Milowent (talk) 21:20, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax. Bigdaddy1981 (talk) 05:13, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Regardless of whether it's a hoax (though that looks very likely) it fails WP:V. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:38, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
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