Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Ketcham (The Amityville Horror)


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The result was   delete. Wizardman 16:58, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

John Ketcham (The Amityville Horror)

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I nominate this page for deletion as (1) none of the references lead to a working website, (2) the reference is not WP:NPOV or WP:RS, (3) this page is all conjectures about a historical person who didn't have anything to do with a hoax but whose last name was used in a film about the hoax. K a r n a (talk) 15:13, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 01:18, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect to The Amityville Horror. If there was an article that listed all of the characters in the Amityville series, I'd recommend redirecting to List of The Amityville Horror characters, but no such article exists. If anyone wants to create it, I'm all for it. The Amityville narrative has a pretty wide cast of players, both supposedly real (as in the case with Ketcham) or outright false (as in the case of the umpteen film sequels), so it'd be a reasonable article to create. Whether this person actually existed or was created over a few bottles of wine is sort of a moot point. So is whether or not this is a hoax. (I say that mostly because putting emphasis on "hoax" makes this feel a little WP:POINT-y.) What we need is coverage and I just can't find enough to suggest that Ketcham is suitably notable enough outside of the Amityville case to really need his own article at this point in time. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   00:10, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
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