Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ghulab A. Khan


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The result was Delete -- JForget  23:51, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Ghulab A. Khan

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Another HOAX biography. Subject had a (suspiciously?) starry education - Le Rosey, Eton,Trinity, Stanford, and Harvard - and is now "one of the most successful venture capitalists" worth $3 bn; his success has "garnered international media attention", but relevant results from Google are only this article and a reference in ILW.COM which is headed "here are some entries from Greg Siskind's blog" and which links back to an earlier Wikipedia article Ghulab Khan, deleted by PROD last December.

His firm Ghulab Khan Capital Partners (GKCP) is "one of the world's leading venture capital firms" and has an equally (suspiciously?) starry list of investments - Apple, Cisco, Ebay, Google... but its "official website", linked from the article, is a single text-only page on a free hosting service. A Google search produces 5 entries, two for this article and the others link back to it. (Question - when we delete a hoax article like this, should someone notify sites like timesdaily.com who have picked it up and repeated it?) A search for GKCP produces nothing relevant.

Author has no other edits. This one got past New Page Patrol and has been here since May; congratulations to Xn4  for spotting and tagging it. Time to Delete. JohnCD (talk) 21:01, 7 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete (maybe even a speedy as an obvious hoax?), per nom. Just in case, I also did a GoogleNews search which produces 12 hits, that all appear to be unrelated to the subject of the article. Nsk92 (talk) 23:09, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Clearly non-notable.  (Sadly, being a hoax is not grounds for Speedy.) Edward321 (talk) 23:17, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, hoax, though probably not obvious enough to be speedied - after all, ILW seems to have believed a previous version of the article. Huon (talk) 23:38, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  23:39, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete Hoax articles are speediable as vandalism (per the misinformation "clause"). Jasynnash2 (talk) 10:24, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


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