Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Owat Boys


 * 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  deleted (CSD A7) by Will Beback. NAC. Cliff smith talk  02:54, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Owat Boys

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By the author's own explanation, the purpose of this article is to promote the group. Even with the many "references" and external links given, there is no evidence that the group is notable or that it even exists. Materials written in 1965, 1582, 1972, 1846, 1990, and 1984, along with materials about such periods as 1565-1615 or 1300-1965 or 1571-1898 or pre-Hispanic times, certainly can't serve as references about a group that didn't exist until 1991. The pages to which the external links point say nothing about a group called "Owat Boys"; what does an article about the Dominican Republic have to do with this Filipino group, for heaven's sake? There are no substantive Google hits either. —Largo Plazo (talk) 12:21, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philippines-related deletion discussions.  -- —Largo Plazo (talk) 12:45, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, the "historic" references were a copy-and-paste job from the article on the corresponding suburb of Manila, Tondo, despite being irrelevant and not mentioning this group. The "Dominican" links and the one to the University of Technology, Iraq were probably added because of the claimed links of group members to that country and university, respectively, but again they don't reference the article. Might be speedied as an article on a group without even a credible claim to notability. Was prodded, prod removed by author. Huon (talk) 14:51, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * You're right, I was the one who originally decided to give the author a chance and only added a couple of maintenance tags. I forgot that speedy hadn't already been attempted! So I've just now added a speedy deletion tag. —Largo Plazo (talk) 15:25, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Update This article has been speedily deleted. —Largo Plazo (talk) 10:53, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.