Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nine Inch Nails advertising


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The result was Speedy Delete ZsinjTalk 03:02, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Nine Inch Nails advertising
The things cited by these articles are mainly web sites where one can download files, or web sites that are clearly themselves parts of the promotional campaign described at Year Zero (album). Reading the sources cited by the latter, I see that we do not have a single reliable source amongst them to confirm such basic facts as the very existence of any of these mysterious USB drives, or the identity of "Elizabeth". The only things cited are pseudonymous postings on web discussion fora that link to other pseudonymous postings on other web discussion fora, in a self-referential nest of fan frenzy. This has all of the trappings of a publicity stunt and is unverifiable from sources that (a) are named and identifiable people (rather than possible pseudonymous astroturfing), (b) are fact checked and peer reviewed, and (c) have reputations to defend at all, let alone reputations for honesty and accuracy. Wikipedia is not a rumour mill. There's also strong evidence that this is a hoax. Notice the claims that spectrographs can reveal fingerprints and telephone numbers, and compare them with what spectrograms actually are. Furthermore, several of the articles contain original research into the domain names and telephone numbers, being performed directly by Wikipedia editors firsthand in Wikipedia itself. Uncle G 17:26, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * DELETE. Spectrograms have been known to contain hidden images, so this is not a hoax. However, these pages have no place on Wikipedia - there is a NIN wiki for them already. BotleySmith 17:35, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as spam. To correct BotleySmith above: it is possible that these are not hoaxes, but almost certainly they are. -- RHaworth 17:40, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails WP:ATT, this isn't so much hoax as heavily social-engineered marketing. (I can only imagine how this will go over on echoingthesound.) -- Dhartung | Talk 18:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, a non-notable viral marketing campaign at best. Big WP:OR and WP:RS problems. If reliable sources can be found a paragraph in the advertised album's page would be justified. Weregerbil 18:44, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete/Speedy Delete - totally agree with the contibutors above. HagenUK 20:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete spam. Nardman1 21:54, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Weregerbil. --Metropolitan90 03:00, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
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