Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Bate


 * 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   speedily deleted (G3) by Ponyo. Non-admin closure. Deor (talk) 22:24, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

James Bate

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Biography article for an actor who indeed existed, but this article contains what appears to be deliberate misinformation, claiming Academy Award nominations, a BAFTA and and fictional television series. The sources offered appear genuine on the surface, until you follow the links and discover they all generate 404 Page Not Found errors. I am not convinced of notability for the subject given a factual version myself (but am open to being convinced otherwise); however the article as it stands is a disaster of misinformation. FlowerpotmaN &middot;( t ) 00:20, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions.  —  FlowerpotmaN &middot;( t ) 00:32, 19 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete This article is full of misinformation, disinformation and links to malicious websites. If an actor of this name existed, he was not notable. Cullen328 (talk) 00:46, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Per WP:VAN and then per WP:OR and WP:GNG. More than half of the article's content can be easily verified as hoax (eg. the BAFTA and the Academy Award nominations are for the 1977 film The Goodbye Girl (a film about an actor playing in William Shakespeare's play Richard III, not an adaptation) and the nominated actor is Richard Dreyfuss). However, as the nominator already stated, there is an actor with this name who played in some notable TV series like Doctor Who or Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (which is mentioned in the article), but I still cant find any reliable source with significant coverage. Nimuaq (talk) 01:43, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per WP:RS. Monterey Bay (talk) 01:50, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not pass the notability guidelines, let alone WP:ENTERTAINER. With all that hoax information, it's better to start anew. Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:34, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. This article appears to be an elaborate hoax with fake references which never existed, since some link to an incorrect Daily Telegraph website.  A lot of the TV series do not appear to list him in their cast, although his IMDB entry confirms that he was in some of them.    ajmint   (talk•edits) 20:03, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. It should be noted that that the IP, who edited the article heavily on May 19th, falls into the range used by blocked user who has finally been banned per this discussion Administrators' noticeboard. MarnetteD | Talk 19:25, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment Note that I have deleted this article as an obvious hoax; it is one of several cookie-cutter hoax articles created over the past few days. --Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  19:53, 20 May 2011 (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.