Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter De Souza


 * 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   delete.  MBisanz  talk 22:28, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Peter De Souza

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Contested prod in August 2008 with no meaningful edits since then. Suspected autobiography, several Google searches did not yield this guy, failing WP:NN. KuyaBriBri Talk 16:18, 19 February 2009 (UTC) * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. — KuyaBriBri Talk 16:18, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Edited to add: I goofed on this cross-listing, sorry. KuyaBriBri Talk 16:25, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Hockey-related deletion discussions. —KuyaBriBri Talk 16:18, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: this list is normally used for ice hockey discussions. ccwaters (talk) 17:12, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment:Technically the way its named is for both. I am going to see if renaming it will affect anything. -Djsasso (talk) 17:47, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep if it can be verified that he did play for the national team, that makes him notable to me. I can't find a list as yet though. --Ged UK (talk) 16:41, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not turning up anything.  This article could plausibly be about the same person, but if so there are a lot of innaccuracies in our article, and the source omits important information about its subject.  Coverage of Canadian international hockey games in the relevant time period I can find only list goal-scorers, and non list De Souza.  But that's only a few games that I've found coverage for.  Delete unless something turns up. JulesH (talk) 18:44, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. I think that there are too many discrepancies between that article and ours to make it plausibly about the same person. The Star describes him as a former Malaysian who was 59 in 2005, has a father who was in Malaysia in 1953, and who moved to Australia. The Wikipedia article is about someone of Goan origin born in Kenya in 1953 who moved to Canada. Even without the decade-or-so discrepancy in the birthdate it would be rather difficult (although I suppose not impossible) to shoehorn all of that into the same biography. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:37, 20 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:05, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Cautious Delete. I've spent a good hour scouring the internet for any mention of this guy, and the result is zilch. Basically, I'm worried this might be a hoax (bear in mind that I've already deleted two different joke articles with this name, although that was nearly 2 years ago). I think the potential damage to wikipedia in the case of it being a hoax is bigger than that of not having an article about this guy until someone finds something. yandman  10:58, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I would totally agree. Hoaxes are mucho bad. --Ged UK (talk) 16:48, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Hers fold  (t/a/c) 23:05, 24 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. Probable hoax.  I can find nothing to confirm any of this except for Wikipedia and mirrors.  Sort of an odd hoax, and the article cited by JulesH appears to either be about a different person, or to totally contradict everything we have here.  Cool3 (talk) 00:02, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete for unverifiability. Drmies (talk) 02:34, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per Drmies and Yandman. THF (talk) 22:58, 27 February 2009 (UTC)


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