Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samuel Hershaw


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The result was  Delete all Mandsford 20:58, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Samuel Hershaw

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Hoax article about a reclusive playwright. The references are to non-existent awards, a non-existent website and a book which doesn't seem to exist either. The only two external links which actually relate to him seem to place him as a very minor figure who had a couple of fringe plays produced in Hannover. The same goes for the related articles about his plays - non-existent websites and lack of reliable sources. I'm nominating them as well.

andy (talk) 17:12, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete all. "Hershaw succesfully avoids any kind of publicity" - could be read as "this is an hoax so you will get few Google hits"! If not hoax then perfectly non-notable. &mdash; RHaworth 19:27, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete all He "succesfully [sic] avoids any kind of publicity" - perhaps we should help him... The http://samuelhershawoverview.edu.co.uk site can't be accessed for a very simple reason - the domain name cannot currently exist. To be exact, there are sites like bloggs-edu.co.uk, but no .edu.co.uk. A point - he's given as an actor in the article. An actor who avoids publicity? His play in German "fressen ficken fernsehen" (translates to "eat f**k watch TV" - fressen being the German word used in connection with animals eating) comes up on two sites, but which share the same page. And that is the sum total for this 'Samuel Hershaw'. The other Samuel Hershaw is well referenced, but then he did patent the corkscrew in 1795. Probably a better contribution to human life than anything I can find in the article. I've delinked 'Derivative Ltd' as the linking went to the mathematical use of the word, and I can find no evidence of the existence of this publisher. Why am I not surprised? I've delinked 'Humbert' and 'Award' as neither went to anywhere relevant, but did look good together. I can't see him having won an award from the Humbert Summer School, and the other possibilities seem to be in the USA. I cannot find the Observer's 2007 List Of Best Literature online - or any other year either. "The author is never important - he barely exists outside of his word" - I am beginning to feel that this one does not exist outside these articles and a German theatre group's web presence. Peridon (talk) 19:59, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * PS I don't believe in the Hershaw Project either... Peridon (talk) 20:02, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * PPS I smell socks, too. The article about the playwright has four editors (apart from the 'maintenance men'), one of whom authored the articles about the plays. Peridon (talk) 20:10, 2 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete all These articles clearly defy WP:HOAX. The article on Feed Fuck Zap (play) links to a Metacafe video uploaded by an account 1 day oldand The Observer's website lists no record of a Samuel Hershaw. These are, to me, obvious signs someone is attempting to start a hoax. - Lebowbowbowski (talk) 02:26, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per the evidence of the others, this appears to be a hoax; if this guy does exist, he's very un-notable. Also, if they even exist, his plays are definitely not notable. A search for "Samuel Hershaw" 8:34 returned exactly one hit (besides Wikipedia): http://psyche.entclub.org/8/8-034.html, which is an archive of an entomology journal... ---  c y m r u . l a s s  (talk me, stalk me) 01:34, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * This is the only thing that throws me off a little:, a reference for Being in love is so passé (play). It mentions him. Even if this checks out, however, it's such an insignificant mention that it doesn't lend notability to either him or the play. ---  c y m r u . l a s s  (talk me, stalk me) 01:38, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * That group also is linked to the 'feed fuck zap' one. I'm wondering if the play was actually attributed to Hershaw as a means of anonymity for someone possibly working out of their field (like Terry Pratchett writing a straight Western, or Dan Brown writing romances for Mills and Boon as sideline...). As a matter of interest, I notice that the person posting as 'Samuelhershaw' below refers to Hannover. Interesting because that is the German spelling, and even though we in the UK shared a monarchy with them for quite some time, we spell it Hanover. Peridon (talk) 19:25, 3 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 02:04, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete all. Thanx guys, keep up the good work! Great I don't have to that stuff all by myself! (Though I don't think the Hannover people are to be blame for this, they were good folks back in the days - this just keeps happening again and again... sick of it.) S.H. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samuelhershaw (talk • contribs) 14:00, 3 March 2011 (UTC) — Samuelhershaw (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * QED, I think. Irritatingly childish. andy (talk) 14:29, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
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