Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Giovanni DonCara


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The result was speedy delete as G3. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 20:29, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Giovanni DonCara

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This article appears to be a hoax. I cannot find any reference to the names or places mentioned; I've searched in nearly every academic database to which I have access. Google, google books, and google scholar similarly return zero results. I've never seen zero results returned on even the most obscure topics. The single reference provided in the article appears to be a children's book, but I cannot be sure given that no information is provided aside from the title. (Also note that there is no 2005 edition of this book.) Furthermore, an asteroid numbered 2351 was discovered in the 1960s according to List of asteroids (2001-3000). This is a contested prod. shotwell 19:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete (and tagged accordingly) as db-vandalism. Vandalism lists, under types of vandalist: "Silly vandalism: Creating joke or hoax articles ...". That's this. Tagged Capurt as well. Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:49, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't think that possible hoax articles can be speedily deleted. WP:CSD specifically excludes hoaxes (although you've tagged it under G3) and Hoaxes calls for AfD. shotwell 19:55, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * As I mentioned on your talk page, db-g3 is for vandalism and Vandalism lists hoaxes, so ... Angus McLellan (Talk) 20:05, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Hoax, speedy delete, per WP:SNOWBALL. Likewise, Capurt, which shares the same author[s], and is similarly unverifiable/nonsensical/unGoogleable. -- The Anome 20:02, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete per myself as prodder and as vandalism per above. Also, while I'm no Italian language expert, the last name looks phoney: "Don" is a title and shouldn't be in a last name, AFAIK. Properly Italianized town names should end in a vowel, too. Tubezone 20:12, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


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