Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ojtnawi


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   speedily deleted: blatant hoax and therefore vandalism. Article was about a supposed Japanese "slave" who defended Yamato Province in World War II with archery. Based on the article Tokomaro, as noted; Tokomaro is somewhat more plausibly placed in the seventh century. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 14:34, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Ojtnawi

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Contested speedy about what I think is a hoax. There are only five Ghits for this name, all Wikipedia or mirrors. Erpert (let's talk about it) 22:28, 26 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete - I originally thought it was a hoax too, but had enough doubt to remove my own speedy tag. However, now that I have looked into the matter further, I back my original assertion. No sources that discuss the history mention his name, and I was not able to find it in translations. Further, in my studies of Japanese, I believe it is impossible to have a Japanese romanization that would produce that name. In Japanese, a "t" cannot follow a "j" without a vowel in between. The lack of mentions anywhere on the internet indicates at worst a hoax, and at best that this man is not a "war hero", but in fact a person whose named is listed in a battle registry and had absolutely no impact on history. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 22:50, 26 April 2010 (UTC)


 *  Weak delete - This cannot be an ethnic Japanese name, the phonetics are all wrong. Given that there are exactly 0 results for all of the above Google searches, it's either a hoax or terribly misspelled. Voting weak delete because if any misspelling can be resolved and the article sourced, it could likely be kept. --Darkwind (talk) 22:45, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Given the comments below, it's looking more likely a hoax - nothing weak about my !vote now. --Darkwind (talk) 02:08, 27 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions.  -- --Darkwind (talk) 22:46, 26 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. Non-notable and most likely a hoax. --DAJF (talk) 23:55, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete as blatant hoax. --DAJF (talk) 02:59, 27 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Given that the Nihonshoki was written at least 14 centuries ago, supposed heroes of WWII cannot appear in it. On the surface, given the contradictions and bad orthography, this looks like a hoax. To allow for the possibility of garblement, I say only delete without speedy, to allow time for fixing mistakes. —Quasirandom (talk) 00:10, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - You know this whole time I had skipped the first sentence, and only taken the last paragraph into account. WWI in the Nihonshoki? This probably should be speedied then. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 00:23, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Yet another reason this article is vandalism: the whole thing is copied from Tokomaro, with the wars changed around to the world wars. At this point, I am going to label it to be speedied as both a copyvio and a hoax. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 02:17, 27 April 2010 (UTC)


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