Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jatapurgovia


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 00:43, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Jatapurgovia

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Possible hoax. Unable to verify most references, except for one mention in a work of fiction Rhomb (talk) 07:20, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note that the username of the individual who created the article is a reference to that exact same story. I know that Stanislaw Lem enjoyed using false documents in his fiction, but he also enjoyed using obscure historical details, so... bleh. DS (talk) 13:00, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment. This article was summarily deleted and has been brought back at my request for the purpose of holding this discussion.  I'm no expert on Armenian archaeology and thought that the article needed some expert views.  Rhomb (talk) 07:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails V (and N). Bongo  matic  13:44, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * This is, I think, an elegantly constructed hoax; every one of the citations I'm in a position to verify doesn't quite check out, but in a way that you might be fooled into thinking it's just incidental corroborating evidence. It's attributed to Herodotus... but only to fragments of Herodotus, presumably explaining why it's not in any standard edition I've looked at. The citation to Dionysius is just to a source explaining the referenced work exists, not to a copy of it. One of the two "Urartic inscription" citations is a lengthy and quite dull piece about labels on wine jars. (I'd hoped to check Dover, since it seems to be very clearly cited, but I haven't a oopy to hand.)
 * All this could, of course, be coincidence, and it just so happens that I couldn't find any citation explicitly mentioning it. However, it's pretty indicative, and coupled with the fact that the only internet results for it are from a work of fiction... Shimgray | talk | 18:31, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete - This seems a hoax. The article creator's user name is "Poleander Partabon", the same fictional character mentioned in the one source that the fictional Jatapurgovia is mentioned in in a g-book search . --Oakshade (talk) 19:42, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per Oakshade; this is a fictional kingdom without real world notability and written falsely to indicate otherwise. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:23, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax. Suda On Line says nothing about Jatapurgovia: ¨¨ victor  falk  12:32, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
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