Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Spencer (Irish writer)


 * 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   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 17:24, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

John Spencer (Irish writer)

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This appears to be part of a cross-wiki hoax or, at best, promotion of an unpublished non-notable "Guillaume Maguire", a.k.a. "John Spencer". (Cf. sockpuppet investigation at nl:Wikipedia.) Google searches turn up no mention of bona fide reliable sources, only several wikis and other open sites such as Wordpress and Amazon customer reviews. ~ Ningauble (talk) 16:30, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I deleted the article on nl-wiki recently as hoax. The account was created on nl-wiki and this account placed it elsewhere as well. MoiraMoira (talk) 16:37, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I deleted the german interwiki yesterday (talk) --MBq (talk) 06:41, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * account created on nl-wiki to perpetuate cross wiki now blocked as well. MoiraMoira (talk) 10:26, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:04, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:46, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.

Delete: This is a hoax. The reference to the Irish Times is faked, just search for it in the Irish Times archive and you will receive zero hits. Dolmen Press never published “alternative travel-guides”, see here for a complete list since 1970 and you will find neither travel guides nor anything by someone called John Spencer. --AFBorchert (talk) 21:09, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions.  —Ningauble (talk) 13:36, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
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