Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shacklesons Disease


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The result was   delete. seicer &#x007C;  talk  &#x007C;  contribs  04:11, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Shacklesons Disease + National Shacklesons Awareness Day

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This article was tagged for CSD as a hoax with the summary "Obvious hoax, part of a campaign to introduce it wholesale into Wikipedia". Whether or not that statement is correct, there are a few things that can be established with certainty:
 * 1) The user single-handedly "introduced" the disease into various wiki articles
 * 2) Claims of National Shacklesons Awareness Day (up for CSD) (included in this AFD)
 * 3) Google yields 1 result (non wiki related)
 * 4) No inline citations, external links, inbound links or sources for WP:V

Apparently, this disease was discovered on August 30, 2005 by S&F Labs. On December 16, 2006 the disease was declared fatal, and On October 18, 2008 the US celebrated National Shacklesons Awareness Day.

Whether this disease exists or not, is now up to you (yes you) to decide.  Flewis (talk) 12:54, 19 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Neutral - I have never heard of the disease, however will remain neutral as an assumption of good faith. -- Flewis (talk) 12:57, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete as hoax. Paranormal and psychic say it all for me. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 13:01, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax. A dig at somebody named Shackleson, I suspect. Chris (talk) 13:14, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hurrah for pointless bureaucracy. Speedy delete. Regarding those 'two Google results', the ONLY Google result using the full phrase is for the just-created Wikipedia article on this alleged disease. That's not good faith, that's gullibility. --CalendarWatcher (talk) 13:16, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Personal attacks aside, prodding an article rather then sending it straight to CSD (which was declined btw) is an assumption of good faith. Littering his talk page with warnings and, 'overzealously' attacking him was frankly, superfluous. Newbie biting at its worst-- Flewis (talk) 13:21, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It not being a personal attack, but rather an observation on behaviour, there's nothing to put aside. Nor was there, as you mischaracterise it, 'overzealous' attacking: it was a stark staringly obvious hoax--as even your flawed Google search revealed--and noted as such. These additions were, in fact, a form of vandalism, and dealt with appropriately, not the hyperbolic 'Newbie biting at its worst' mischaracterisation. --CalendarWatcher (talk) 13:36, 19 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Hoax; nothing on Pubmed. Blackmetalbaz (talk) 13:40, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete A brave effort to AGF and not bite, but alas, this is a hoax. Neither the disease nor the referenced journal (the "Medical Bulletin of Rare Diseases") exist outside of Wikipedia.  gnfnrf (talk) 13:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Neutral I have also never heard of this disease, but will assume good faith. Unfortunately if no reliable sources turn up I may have to switch to delete. --Banime (talk) 15:31, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax based on ghist for the disease and the "Medical Bulletin of Rare Diseases". Flewis, thank you for listing it.  --Lockley (talk) 16:19, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, WP:SNOW. Assume good faith is not a suicide pact, this is an amateurish and astonishingly blatant hoax with no verifiable references or google hits. ~ mazca  t 16:38, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete both articles unless they can be in any way verified, as of the moment it searches find nothing... including searches in medical sources, disease sources, and reaearch sources. There is simply nothing there.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 21:10, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * WP:SNOW delete: If a whole country celebrated an awareness day, there would be sources for the disease and the celebration. Schuy m 1  ( talk ) 21:56, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Support - All valid reasons, suggest WP:SNOW closure. &mdash; Ceran (Sing)  22:40, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete' Obvious hoax. Edward321 (talk) 23:44, 19 October 2008 (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.