Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Simon Bjorn Ackwayus


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The result was   speedy delete. SNOW - Dank (push to talk) 03:12, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Simon Bjorn Ackwayus

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Unverifiable - either an embellished bio or a hoax. Sixtysixstar (talk) 07:52, 26 May 2009 (UTC) Sixtysixstar has made few or no other edits outside this discussion.-- The Legendary   Sky Attacker  07:58, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

*Delete per nominator. Seems like an interesting person but it is unsourced. A possible hoax. I cannot say it is unsourced now that there are newspaper citations.-- The Legendary   Sky Attacker  08:05, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. The sources are clearly forged.  The WSJ one cites Daniel Pearl as the author but the date given is 1968.  Pearl was born in '63, as a quick check of his article will tell you.  I doubt a five-year-old was writing obituaries for a national newspaper which doesn't generally run obituaries.  If anything, we have source forgery.Tyrenon (talk) 15:40, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - at the weekend I shall have access to a library where I can check the back numbers of the London Times; I suppose it is just worth doing that in order to hammer one more nail in the coffin of this WP:Complete bollocks. JohnCD (talk) 15:46, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I checked the online archives for "Simon Ackwayus" (as his name was listed in the purported article title). No hits.  No hits for "Ackwayus", either.  Shame we can't bop the creator(s) for forging sources; I consider that to be an even bigger issue than cooking up a WikiHoax.Tyrenon (talk) 16:10, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, having not seen that image before, might there be a copyvio on the picture? It's claimed as a portrait of the guy, but the guy is pretty clearly fictional meaning that it's from somewhere else.Tyrenon (talk) 16:15, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The image file was uploaded by Giant turtle, the article author; the upload notes say: "painted in 1939 and released into the public domain by Artist William Van Tasserfeld |Source=Own work by uploader |Author=Giant turtle, William Van Tasserfeld". That seems to say Giant turtle is Van Tasserfeld; he must be getting on if he painted that 70 years ago. There is no trace of him on Google, Books or Scholar. I don't recognise the picture, and I don't know of any Google-type search function for an image. JohnCD (talk) 17:34, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete as hoax. I'm not so easily fooled.  If he was born in England and went to University of London then why did he first attend Nepean High School (Ottawa) as shown here?  Why was it an IP from Ottawa that added the information?  Might it not have been this young man who created this hoax?  Or this old one? And might he also have created this Urban Dictionary entry whilst laughing at the fatty with the butter stains?  Would he advocate revolution if the buses didn't run?  Would he advocate wholesale slaughter of dogs and emo kids?  I call B.S. on this.  Let us take a stand to preserve Wikipedia from bored young men. Drawn Some (talk) 09:22, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Not even funny. If genuine (it's not) the editor should create a new article with at least one verifiable fact. Johnuniq (talk) 11:28, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per ^^^. JBsupreme (talk) 15:03, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Hoaxalicious. Edward321 (talk) 01:08, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax. He traded his son to a group of gypsies for 6kg of potato salad? As mentioned above, it's not even funny. --bonadea contributions talk 11:34, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete as a hoax. His 'childhood friend' was born when he was almost 40.  Riiiight.Tyrenon (talk) 14:09, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, just to add to the burial, it says he worked on the Model A Ford in the late 1930s. The Model A went out of production in 1931.Tyrenon (talk) 16:13, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - among much other nonsense, the article claims that in 1942 "he was the 3rd person to successfully sail the 2900 mile transatlantic voyage", but it is clear from Single-handed sailing that the third single-handed Atlantic crossing had been made by 1899. JohnCD (talk) 15:12, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Snow hoax delete. Quack quack. -- Banj e  b oi   01:32, 30 May 2009 (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.