Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kate Crash


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The result was   delete. seicer &#x007C;  talk  &#x007C;  contribs  21:37, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Kate Crash

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If not actually a hoax, this is a lot of hype erected on a very flimsy foundation of Youtube-movie type activity. Some of her Youtube videos were posted by "starface01" which is also the name of the user author of this article and of Hiro Super - see AfD below. The article does its credibility no favours by saying that Crash is aged 74 and by nonsense about her being raised by polar bears and wolves.
 * I can't find any trace of "CGH Online Magazine" which is claimed to have voted her "most entertaining thing on earth".
 * Her "first hit song Hmm Hump" which became a "global cultural phenomenon" is on Youtube with under 2,000 views.
 * The short film Samurai Movie, a "sensation in the global film community" which "Scholars say... is the single most important sociological and art experiment in the 2000's" is also on Youtube with about 100 views.
 * She has a website at www.katecrash.com full of psychedelic colours, but little information; if you click on "Shows" you are taken to her Myspace page, where there are links to these movies, and to "Kate Crash Tokyo 2008", four minutes of a young blonde clowning about before puzzled or indifferent passers-by in a Japanese street, which I suppose is her "contribution to youth art culture in Tokyo".

Conclusion: this is all hype, and probably self-promotion; a few Youtube videos with viewing figures in the hundreds do not show notability, and no reliable source confirms any of the grand claims in the article. Delete. JohnCD (talk) 19:53, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete Not even popular by youtube standards (not that being popular on youtube would get someone an article even if true, of course, but still...) Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  20:09, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete verging on Speedy. Unsourced and fantastic claims (suvived on polar bear milk from age 3 to 7) strongly supports the idea that this article is a hoax. Arakunem Talk 20:16, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong delete, maybe speedy per IAR. Clear cut hoax. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 21:13, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - Comes close to WP:CSD standards, and per above. Also, the passage about being raised by polar bears was hilarious. RockManQ (talk) 01:30, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete as vandalism (deliberate misinformation). Jasynnash2 (talk) 10:19, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete Clearly not notable, even the parts that aren't obviously a hoax. Edward321 (talk) 14:38, 5 September 2008 (UTC)


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