Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scunt


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The result was   delete. Punkmorten (talk) 21:09, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Scunt

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Contested prod for a non notable organisation. The 'references' provided are not reliable sources and at least one, the claimed Stephen Fry discussion, is a misrepresentation. Despite searching, I coud find no sources to provide verification or notability. Nuttah (talk) 20:28, 31 May 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:59, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
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 * Delete - When I originally tagged this with 'unverified claims' it was because I could find no references to the awards allegedly won or that it was the second highest circulated satirical publication in the UK. Even then I felt I was being overly optimistic about Scunt and seriously considered it for A7 Speedy Deletion then. Trevor Marron (talk) 23:18, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Strong delete. I am from the UK and I have never heard of it. The references are useless, and in one case blatantly disingenuous. Googling gives me no hope that it has a high profile, or much of a profile at all. I find much of it suspicious. Nothing in Google News to corroborate the alleged spat with Morrissey, for example. What does circulation mean when it is a website not a magazine? 19 employees financed from selling T-Shirts? I strongly suspect not! This seems to be a highly fictionalised account written by an author who registered solely to create the article and has not been seen since. I have tagged it as disputed. --DanielRigal (talk) 01:18, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax. Bigdaddy1981 (talk) 04:38, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Niteshift36 (talk) 07:25, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
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