Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael (TV series)


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The result was   Speedy Delete as WP:HOAX. Bearcat (talk) 14:10, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Michael (TV series)

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Unsourced article about a TV series, which consists of nothing but an episode list with no actual article body, and which has been flagged as a possible WP:HOAX. It doesn't google, but I'll be fair and acknowledge that the title "Michael" is awfully generic and could simply disappear behind a lot of other things (for instance, even if this does exist Google's geolocated searching would steer me as a Canadian toward Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays instead of this...and hell, even Family Ties could overpower it just because that show had two actors named Michael in its cast.) It also doesn't help that all the names listed in the article (director Michael Thomas, writer Alex Flanders, guest stars Augusta Popova and Debby Ripley) link to dab pages rather than articles about writers or actors or directors. So I'm definitely getting a hint of bull excrement here, but not solid enough to speedy it without a second opinion. Bearcat (talk) 04:31, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. The fact that this article about a TV series fails to mention what country the show is from, what network airs it, or the names of any of the principal cast members leads me to think that this show exists only in the mind of the article's creator. I'm thinking it's a hoax. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:03, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete my searching came up with nothing when I used the names of episodes, so I don't think it is even a YouTube series. The past form by this writer has also been similar fabricated episode lists. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 05:37, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete nothing at all on the unique names Oleg Chumack, Victor Countryman, or Rita Zhadan. And the blue links go to first names only. Nothing can be verified. MB 05:46, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete As probable hoax. We should look into what else the creator got into here. Legacypac (talk) 07:28, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * His other fake TV show creations have already been deleted. In fact, one of them, Attempts & Errors, had the same basic plot albeit with different episodes. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 14:00, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete: Definitely made-up! Could not find a single shred of evidence to support either the show or the depicted plots. TopCipher (talk) 07:34, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Like everyone else, I tried to find references to this but failed (though the extremely common title doesn't help). However all the links are to dab pages or generic articles about names, and obvious details like where the show was broadcast are omitted. Additionally, every one of this editor's contributions seem to have been reverted or speedy deleted (see his contribution history and talk page). Put together, these things lead me to conclude that it's a hoax. Neiltonks (talk) 12:26, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, y'all. After investigating the creator's deleted contributions more carefully (something which hadn't occurred to me to do yesterday), there's a much more solid case for speedying as a hoax — the past "shows" typically included fake network information ("YBC" or "Monday's Channel"), along with repetition of some of the same actor and crew names present here (Oleg Chumack, Victor Countryman and Michael Thomas recurred most commonly.) So I'm comfortable that there's now enough evidence to withdraw the discussion (we don't need seven more days of WP:SNOW) and just speedy this as a confirmed WP:HOAX. Bearcat (talk) 14:10, 24 April 2017 (UTC)


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