Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jan Gaston Rawls


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The result was   delete. The Bushranger One ping only 23:26, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Jan Gaston Rawls

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None of the refs are verifiable. None of the bio info is reffed. Non-notable author or hoax author. I Never  Cry  20:11, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 22:07, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 19:19, 24 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - It appears that this may be a hoax, or at least the contents are a fabrication. The bibliography in the article does lead to something be held in a library somewhere .  However, the references in the article are a bit dubious.  I was able to pull up two of them after a fashion in Google Books.  Forgotten Fantasy from Dec 1970 is one of the references provided.  Although the entire book is not available, I was able to look at the table of contents which shows no article by a "SCHWARTZ, Delmore" listed.  The book is fully searchable even if it isn't fully viewable, and a search for the author and a search for the article turned up nothing.  Art Fakes and Forgeries by Fritz Mendax (1956) provides snippet views from a search.  Searching for Rawls did not turn up any hits in the book. -- Whpq (talk) 21:15, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
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