Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew "the Iron Fist" Birtchnell


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The result was Delete -- JForget  00:40, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Matthew &quot;the Iron Fist&quot; Birtchnell

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Possible hoax article about a professional boxer who does not seem to be mentioned on the Internet anywhere, who was defeated by another boxer who is not mentioned on the Internet anywhere, with a cite to a book which also does not seem to be mentioned on the Internet anywhere. I propose that this article be deleted on the ground that it does not appear to demonstrate that its subject meets WP:BIO criteria. The Anome (talk) 00:00, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete &mdash; appears to be a hoax, barring further evidence. Can anyone find the ISBN for that book? --Haemo (talk) 00:49, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Hoax Beeblbrox (talk) 01:07, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax. Can't find anything about the subject or the author of the book. If it's not a hoax, it fails WP:BIO anyhow Doc StrangeTelepathic Messages Strange Frequencies 02:25, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:V at best; is a hoax at worse. Neither book or author appear to be found on amazon.co.uk or amazon.de as I would have reasonably expected. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 02:28, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. The book doesn't even appear in WorldCat, a union catalog covering 10,000+ libraries. If it does exist, it must be hopelessly obscure. EALacey (talk) 11:27, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * (Comment: Nor is the putative author listed on WorldCat as having written any books . I cannot find any book with a title on the lines of Die komplette Geschichte der Deutsch Boxen, either.) -- The Anome (talk) 23:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Were it not for the fact that the author of the article has been contributing to Wikipedia for quite some time, I doubt that people would have thought twice about the inauthenticity of this page. Mandsford (talk) 14:25, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete due to lack of sources and lack of record. Sincerely, --  Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles  Tally-ho! 22:02, 11 March 2008 (UTC)


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