Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryan Morrison


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The result was Delete  JForget  01:34, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Ryan Morrison

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Biography of a living person which lacks references to reliable sources. Claims of notability are not referenced. RadioFan (talk) 20:28, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete It even lacks references to unreliable sources. No mention of him at imdb or amazon. Going back to the other edits by the article creator indicates he graduated Skidmore college. That info turns up this guy, with no indication that it's the same person. Overwhelming lack of evidence to show existence, let alone notability. VernoWhitney (talk) 20:59, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. This has been the target of a steady stream of vandalism (does anyone agree with me that the proportion of vandals called "Ryan" seems to be much higher than the proportion of Ryans in the general population?), but there is no confirmation of the original version, whose author only edited on the one day he created it. For instance, Google Books doesn't find his alleged three books about sharks. Likely hoax, at best fails WP:V. JohnCD (talk) 21:29, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Unverified, probable hoax. Note the drily humorous tone of the article. Also, his claim to have hosted Shark Week appears to be false. --MelanieN (talk) 19:36, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. I ran a Google query for "Ryan Morrison" and "Alastair Fothergill"; Google did not return any reliable sources that prove that these two people had actually worked together. I ran a Google query for "Ryan Morrison" and "Shark Week"; Google did not return any reliable sources that prove that the article subject had actually hosted the TV show in question. I ran a Google query for "Ryan Morrison" and the quote that he had allegedly said in defense of sharks; Google did not return any reliable sources. And finally, I ran a Google query for "Ryan Morrison" and "Atlantic Sharpnose Shark"; Google did not return any reliable sources. Thus, I am now convinced that this article is a possible hoax. -- SoCalSuperEagle ( talk ) 19:50, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete what looks like some minor schoolboy fantasy. -- Hoary (talk) 15:21, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete no sources back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MelLaVie (talk • contribs) 12:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)


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