Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Puriece


 * 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. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:43, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Puriece

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I believe this article to be a hoax. In addition to the improbably romantic story of lost and fragmentary texts, secret wills, and dying revolutionary leaders taking their secrets to the grave, I can find no evidence that the cited source ("Rivista di Studi Lombardo-Siculi" exists; no evidence that Ugo Bleiro exists or is notable; and he does not appear to be listed among the faculty of the University of Messina or of the University of Shkodra, where he is claimed to work.

I am also nominating the following related pages because they appear to be integral parts of the same hoax:

RandomCritic (talk) 17:35, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete all three articles. If "Puriece" was really the only example of "Agricane Nordic" poetry, then surely there would be at least one relevant google hit for "Puriece" or "Agricane" or "Agricane Poetry" or "Ugo Bleiro" or "Alexander Caserinus".  There are no sources available to verify any of these three articles, and the sources provided do not appear to exist.  I agree that these three articles were created as a hoax, in the hopes that we'd be tricked by the fact that all three articles link to each other.  All three articles were created by the same editor,, and these are the only contributions by this editor.  I say speedy delete as a hoax, and indef block Maltisafi unless he can prove beyond a doubt that these are not a hoax.  Snotty Wong   confabulate 19:02, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:08, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:08, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The Ugo Bleiro article was previously nominated for deletion because of a lack of sources. User:Maltisafi added two citations, and the nomination was dropped. However, both citations appear to be fraudulent; I can find no evidence for the existence of the named articles in either Corriere della Sera or L'Essentiel.  Also, the language of the lines from the supposed poem looks like complete nonsense — random Italian, Latin, and pseudo-Latin words thrown together without meaning. RandomCritic (talk) 19:44, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete all. Sophomoric hoax. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:38, 17 November 2010 (UTC).
 * Delete all Clearly a hoax. Edward321 (talk) 01:10, 20 November 2010 (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.