Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lucian Yahoo Dragoman

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. dbenbenn | talk 15:41, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Lucian Yahoo Dragoman
This news story turned out to be a hoax (not saying the poster of the article is hoaxing us), and the article even has a link to an article which discusses the hoax. RickK 06:23, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * What's your vote, Rick? Mikkalai 09:08, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. Delete and Merge with Yahoo!, Does Wikipedia have an Urban legends depository, or do we leave that to Snopes?--ZayZayEM 06:55, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mikkalai 07:22, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC).
 * Keep. I think hoaxing a national newspaper is notable, and this seems the best title; alternatively, start an article on Libertatea and merge this. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:18, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. There's Category:Hoaxes for this kind of article to fall into. Bryan 00:47, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Perhaps a merge into Yahoo!?--ZayZayEM 00:50, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable hoax, needs expansion. The name Yahoo is not exclusive to that product btw. We have an actor here in Australia who calls himself Yahoo Serious, long before the internet product existed. Megan1967 01:30, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The Hoax does specifically deal with Yahoo! though. I don't think the hoax will be that notable in say 20 years.--ZayZayEM 02:35, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yes, we have a category for notable hoaxes, like the Piltdown Man or The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This one is not notable. It gets almost 300 Google hits, very few for something web-related. People will soon forget this and we'll have a ghost article. JoaoRicardo 05:04, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm with JoaoRicardo. --Marcus22 12:13, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak weak keep. Barely notable as a hoax. JuntungWu 17:11, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nonnotable hoax. Wile E. Heresiarch 08:29, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep this and all other notable hoaxes. GRider\talk 18:49, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Spinboy 00:00, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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