Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phlooie

Phlooie was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete

Phlooie
Seems to be a hoax. The traits described seem to match several species (chameleons, flying lizards etc.) Cant't find on Google or Google Scholar (with any number of spellings). Delete Sabine's Sunbird 15:46, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. A joke which almost got me in. :-) --Gtabary 15:50, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. They might have gotten away with it if they hadn't mentioned the Arumbaya. Fictional tribe and their language, from the Tintin series. (No, it doesn't Google as anything else.) JRM 16:13, 2004 Dec 6 (UTC)
 * Speedily deleted,
 * Comment: Are you sure "Phlooies" aren't featured in some Tintin book or other? So it would be contextless fancrft not an actual hoax? Kappa 17:09, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Possibly, but I think we can be excused for not distinguishing one from the other if the article doesn't mention up front that we're dealing with fiction&mdash;especially if the term in question nets not a single Google reference across the multitude of Tintin fansites on the web. Otherwise, how can we ever delete hoaxes? If the article hadn't mentioned the Arumbaya (as it might well have not), the suspicion would have never cropped up to begin with. I'd be more than willing to apologize if the contributor shows up and protests, but somehow I doubt that'll happen. JRM 18:01, 2004 Dec 6 (UTC)
 * Well yes, it would be hard for them to find this page now that the article has been deleted. Also their contribution has been labelled 'vandalism' so they probably wouldn't feel very welcome. Kappa 00:30, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Can't argue with that, unfortunately. You can always take it to Votes for undeletion if you want to be consistent about it. JRM 00:49, 2004 Dec 7 (UTC)

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