Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rahim Abdul bin Kajaran


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The result was   speedy delete. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:46, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Rahim Abdul bin Kajaran

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These two articles seem to be a rather alarming hoax by, which has been here since February. The first one, as left by its author on 14 Feb 09, said that the subject "Abolished The Monarchy of Brunei. He was sworn into office on February,12,2009, together with Ahmad Wadil as Vice president." The words "Abolished the monarchy of Brunei" have been removed by another editor, but the infobox still shows him as "President of Brunei."

The CIA World Factbook knows nothing of this; the Sultan is still head of state and government. Nor does it know of the supposed political party. I can find no reference to it which is not a Wikipedia mirror: Nor do I find any trace outside WP and mirrors of the other two founders of the party, Adam Wahit and Mark Hardirin. References to the party in Politics of Brunei were inserted in February by Best1290; at the same time he altered the article Brunei to show bin Kajaran as president, but that at least was promptly reverted.

It is worrying that this easily checkable hoax has survived, with the main article tagged "BLPunsourced", for nine months, and spread across the Internet via WP mirrors. Credit to IP user for tagging the bin Kajaran article. All the checkable facts here are wrong. Delete both. JohnCD (talk) 16:05, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Brunei-related deletion discussions.  —JohnCD (talk) 19:06, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax, I can find no evidence of his or the party's existance. Great catch, good legwork and it looks like congratulations will soon be in order ;) J04n(talk page) 17:40, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete all Incredibly stupid hoax. How this slipped past the radar, I don't know, and maybe nobody was actually misled by the article, but things like this are a reminder that an encyclopedia that anyone can edit is going to have some nonsense in it.  Every other article connected with Best1290 is now suspect.  Mandsford (talk) 18:01, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete: G3 as hoax, and take action against creator/primary editor, as this does not appear to be this user's only hoax article. -- Kinu t /c  03:21, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
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