Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Giancarlo Cannito


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The result was speedily deleted by User:Anthony Appleyard under criterion G3. (Non-admin closure)  " Pepper "  @ 07:27, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Giancarlo Cannito

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Seems to be a hoax. Sources fail to support the article; they confirm that the named teams won certain games, but none mention Cannito by name as being a team member. Searching for background, a user talk page mentions the (now-deleted) Talk:Giancarlo "DioxiNe" Cannito containing "a theory" about a previous version of the article being a hoax, before being prodded. This doesn't seem blatant enough to meet WP:G3, so may as well take this through AfD for the record. Can User:Prisencolin shed any light on the deleted "theory"? McGeddon (talk) 15:12, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Article was named as a hoax in May 2015: Wikipedia_talk:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia/Archive_1. Can't find a single mention of him in WP:RS online, so fails WP:BIO either way. NeemNarduni2 (talk) 15:19, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions.  sst  ✈  16:21, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions.  sst  ✈  16:21, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete (WP:G4) more or less a recreation of not one but two other pages that have existed in the past about this person. The part that's a hoax is that the information in this article is just a fork of the content on f0rest, but with mentions of Counter-Strike replaced with Call of Duty. The various teams and plays mentioned on this page do certainly exist, but Giancarlo Cannito has no connection to them. An online search suggests that this may be a real person who plays online games, but has nowhere near the amount of notability required for WP.--Prisencolin (talk) 20:40, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


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