Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lalukhet Grammar School


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 17:24, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Lalukhet Grammar School

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This is a hoax. It was input on 3 Jan 2009; curiously, it had a "refimprove" tag dated Feb 2007 already in place, and was liberally sprinkled with "citation needed" tags. It certainly needs references, but I have searched and can find no confirmation. The number of pupils (50) seems improbably small. The article says the school "is commonly referred to as the Eton of Pakistan," but a look at Google shows that distinction belongs to Aitchison College in Lahore. None of the articles on supposed notable alumni mentions it (the author inserted it into Shaukat Aziz but it was soon removed); several of them give a different account of their subjects' schooling. One of the "notable alumni", Hoshu Sheedi, died at the Battle of Dubbo in 1843, but the school was not founded till 1857. The founder, Alfred P. Algar, "was the headmaster at Eton College," but does not appear in List of headmasters at Eton College. Zaha Hadid is said to be designing its new campus, but her website doesn't mention it. And so on...

The author has produced hoaxes before: see this AfD for the mythical financier "Ghulab A. Khan", and there was an earlier article "Ghulab Khan" deleted by PROD which may also have been his work. Delete as hoax. JohnCD (talk) 12:02, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Clearly a hoax (though you'd be surprised at how small schools can actually get. 50 pupils isn't improbable at all) - Mgm|(talk) 12:59, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong delete clearly a hoax - when are we going to create a speedy cat for nonsense like this? ukexpat (talk) 19:12, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - blatant hoaxes alomg the lines of "Phil Pearson was, yesterday, elected ruler of the world" can already be deleted as a G3. However, where a Google search is needed to establish that a page is a hoax then the consensus is that at least a short-run AfD is sensible to get a second opinion. TerriersFan (talk) 01:24, 30 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete as a Hoax Mayalld (talk) 14:13, 3 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.