Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michel Perrault (sociologist)


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 02:39, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Michel Perrault (sociologist)

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Possible hoax; see talk page for more. NW ( Talk ) 17:09, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:HOAX Contribution from a single purpose account (SPA) is reason to ask further questions which, in this case, the article cannot answer .  The occasional hoax is a small price to pay for the freedom of having an encyclopedia that anyone can edit.  Some might say that four months is proof that they "got away with it"; I'd say it's actually proof that the article was so uninteresting, nobody bothered to read it until now.  Mandsford 17:56, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Unverifiable. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 18:30, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, for the reasons I outlined on the talk page. EdwardTattsyrup (talk) 23:17, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete as hoax. The composer Michel Perrault is the only author of this name found in WorldCat, the Bibliothèque nationale de France catalogue, Google Scholar or FRANCIS. I suspect that the supposed quotation is output from the Postmodernism Generator; for example, compare the first sentence of our quotation ("If one examines capitalist narrative, one is faced with a choice: either reject neosemiotic nihilism or conclude that narrative must come from the masses") with the first sentence of section 4 here. EALacey (talk) 03:31, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. I cannot find any references to confirm that such a sociologist indeed existed (would prefer input from a native French speaker about search results in French though). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 04:04, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete Unverifiable at best. Edward321 (talk) 13:12, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
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