Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacob R Kon


 * 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 - closing the debate early as an apparent WP:HOAX. WaltonOne 16:37, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Jacob R Kon

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Insufficent coverage to verify content of article, let alone establish notability. Google and Google News return no results matching this individual, and the source cited below appears not to exist in the newspaper's own archives. I've performed a Factiva search, which returned no results. Proposed deletion was contested. -- Lear's Fool 13:26, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
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 * Speedy delete Based on the available evidence, this is a hoax. Outside this article, I can find nothing on Jacob R. Kon (or Kohn), and no evidence for a Rabbi Harriet Wallace in Des Moines or elsewhere. Nor can I find evidence for the appointment in 2004 of an Exilarch, and nor for the existence of this position beyond the 12th century. The one reference fails to load. And finally, the presence of the wording "He is said to live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn ,though that is based on hearsay and might not be reliable." suggests hoax to me. Many of the hoax articles I have encountered have contained a woolly statement of this sort - "this legend is little known", "few know about", "no-one outside the society" and so on. I am, as always, willing to change my view if someone comes up with something convincing. Peridon (talk) 15:41, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete this obvious violation of WP:HOAX and WP:NONSENSE. There is no current "Exilarch" and even if there was one, which there hasn't been for over a thousand years, this guy would not be it. IZAK (talk) 16:08, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete. Blatant violation of WP:HOAX and WP:NONSENSE. Note: no one reference is running also this one. --Dэя-Бøяg 16:14, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
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