Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Knightsmith


 * 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.  MBisanz  talk 13:27, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Knightsmith

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Neologism, MADEUP, no references. &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 08:58, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. This one was tricky. "Knightsmith" appears to be a fairly common name in parts of the UK, and a Google search will return truckloads of poolside pictures of people with that name. But Coventry (the area where the shot allegedly originated) does not have people named "Knightsmith", and the article gives no third-party sources attesting to usage of this shot. This search returns the Wikipedia article and two false positives. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 13:08, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * When an article is deliberately written in vague terms about the present day, for which one can be obviously fairly exact as to dates, then warning bells sound that the writer is trying to make a subject appear more encyclopaedic than it really is. This article's discussion of "the early parts of the 21st century" is a strong telltale that this article isn't coverage of an encyclopaedic subject. What it clearly is, is two persons' (Mmccurrie's and Sevenballer's) writeup, for whatever reason, of the one-time actions or habits of one of their friends.  It's almost certainly named after the surname of the friend, and had it been more personally identifying it would have strayed across the line into attack article territory.  Further corroboration that this is people abusing Wikipedia to make up hoax articles directed at their friends is the fact that the IP address that removed the AFD notice,, also traces back to the same city, Coventry, as mentioned in the article. This is not even an attempt at a real encyclopaedia article, and it is close to the borderline of being speedily deletable as a combination of attack article and hoax vandalism.  Delete. Uncle G (talk) 13:58, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax. Speaking as a resident of Coventry and a regular pool player, I've never heard of this. No ghits at all. The content of the article is clearly untrue. JulesH (talk) 19:57, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.