Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hamland Bank (Isle of Man)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   speedy delete, obvious hoaxes are vandalism, in addition to the concerns noted below about the potential harm that might come about because of a hoax Wikipedia article about a financial institution that does not in fact exist. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:14, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Hamland Bank (Isle of Man)

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There are serious doubts about the existence of the company; however, this is not blatant vandalism and notability is asserted, so this article should not be speedy deleted. , who tagged this page for deletion, wrote on the talk page:

This article is completly bogus the "bank" is completly false and bogus and designed to fool and deceive. I have emailed the Isle of Man finance commission and below is the response i received

--Googie Lovelock (talk) 09:23, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

My own search for sources returned nothing substantial; however, I was able to find this website, which appears to be this bank. This company fails WP:ORG and WP:V. Cunard (talk) 04:35, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Royal mail postcode yields no address?? Add postcode and no reference of hamland appears

Most of the content is stolen from this site http://www.cvcb.com/profile.aspx An example http://www.hamlandbank.com/board.html <-> http://www.cvcb.com/directors.aspx Note alot of the same names appear One year registration for a well established so called "bank"


 * Speedy delete. I don't care if it meets any of the criteria or not, but this article shouldn't be around a minute longer, let alone 7 days. Looks like some sort of dodgy operation, with wrong addresses, no answers at phone numbers (I tried out of interest), and no coverage at all. This, together with the response from the Isle of Man people just makes the whole thing stink. Quantpole (talk) 14:33, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.