Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henry Lauwrence Simms


 * 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   delete. FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 15:55, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Henry Lauwrence Simms

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Not enough scholarly work to be included Cynof  G  avuf 12:05, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Appears to be an unsourced BLP, on somebody whose name is unknown to google, and whose book is unknown to the catalogues of major research libraries. (Might it be a hoax article?) --Paularblaster (talk) 20:49, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Looks like a possible hoax article. Plain vanilla google searches for the name of the subject and for the name of the book return just 1 hit, to the Wikipedia article. In any case, fails WP:V. Kinoq (talk) 21:44, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  —Kinoq (talk) 21:49, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Brazil-related deletion discussions.  —Eastmain (talk) 21:52, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Tentative delete. I searched the catalogs of the Library of Congress, the National Library of Canada and the National Library of Brazil, and couldn't find Simms or “Ethnology: a refutation of the mind”. There is no article on him in the Portuguese Wikipedia. Google Scholar for "HL Simms", "Simms Amazon" or "Simms Brazil" turns up nothing relevant. I suspect that this is a hoax rather than a non-notable anthropologist. -- Eastmain (talk) 21:52, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. The article's creator, Luana Fernanda ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs  · [/wiki/Special:Log/move?user=  page moves  ] · block user  · [  block log  ] ), has no recorded visible activity other than the creation of this article. -- Eastmain (talk) 21:55, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete if no further evidence forthcoming. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:57, 8 November 2009 (UTC).
 * Delete due to total absence of reliable sources. It is probably a hoax. The article claims that "he was a member of the FUNAI from 1964 to 1976". However, FUNAI (Fundação Nacional do Índio) was only established in or after 1967. The full text of the 1967 law authorizing the creation of FUNAI is here. CronopioFlotante (talk) 22:10, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions.  —Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:06, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete if no further evidence forthcoming, which I doubt. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:06, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Searched high and low -- no sign the book exists, no sign of the author being notable in any way. And I really tried to find anything I could. Collect (talk) 12:41, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
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