Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Galnafanaigh

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The result of the debate was delete as a one year (!) old hoax -- Joolz 20:56, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Galnafanaigh
Vfd not listed by nominator - now fixed --Doc (?) 11:22, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

I am convinced this entry is entirely bogus - as are two others added by user 81.153.144.198 Saga City 20:36, August 6, 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment, when I first saw this I didn't believe it but when checking up with Google I still didn't believe it, however the name of Galnafanaigh does seem to link to a Scottish village which does in fact have a Duck festival for some odd reason. My guess is that this village is so isolated that there isn't enough information about it. The author of this article is probably the only person from the village who's connected to the net. But I do agree there is not enough backup information or source material to allow this article to remain. Piecraft 01:06, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep verifiable place --Doc (?) 11:22, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * My bad, I seem to have been misled by Autoroute's redirection to Gallanach and 1,000+ googles many not mirrors - but I can't get one of those googles to give me anything verifiable so delete unless someonecan verify. --Doc (?) 14:54, 5 September 2005 (UTC)


 * In what way is this verifiable?? Streetmap.co.uk goes down to individual farms, especially in Scotland, and it's not there. It was this that alerted me in the first place.Saga City 12:31, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * I can't find it in Google Maps or viamichelin.com either. It does get 1070 Google hits, though (about a place in the Scottish highlands, and they're not all Wikipedia mirrors). Perhaps the place (however small) exists, but the information isn't right? --IByte 14:29, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Try googling on 'Simon Fotherington, Galnafanaigh' and you will discover he could be (or this is the pseudonym of) the only resident of this 'place'. I remain convinced that Wikipedia is the victim of a hoax here, most of the other hits are automatically generated from lists of placenames. It's not in geodaisy.com either! If someone can point to a reliable gazeteer I may be convinced but the arrival of The Festival Of The Punctured And Feathered One and the equally elusive Latheronwheel in the same part of the world on the same day from the same anonymous contributor would make me suspect that our hoaxer may even have got to it.Saga City 15:58, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * All right then, delete for lack of verifiability. --IByte 16:15, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Latheronwheel definitely exists. It's on the coast road between Lybster and Hemsdale. Grutness...  wha?  08:41, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * search google groups for it. its fake. (preceding unsigned comment by at 5 September 2005, 16:36 UTC)
 * Delete There are only a handful of red links on the list of burghs in Scotland, and this isn't one of them. CalJW 20:45, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. A very believable hoax, but it's interesting that Google has never heard of the Gaelic Jewel Thistle Award, which you'd think some of the previous winner would want to brag about. What's more, my prized Johnston and Bacon road atlas, which in iolated areas like the Scottish Highlands shows and names towns, villages and individual farms does not mention this place among the hundred or so shown in the desolate wilds between Thurso and Latheronwheel. Achnavanich, yes. Galnafanaich, no. Grutness...  wha?  11:02, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, there is a Thistle Award, just no Gaelic Jewel Thistle Award... Someone has been trying hard to make us believe this. --IByte 14:49, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This is crap. Albeit very believable crap, but still crap nonetheless. McA 19:28, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - bogus, from someone who knows Caithness reasonably well. --MacRusgail 14:21, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
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