Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Simon George


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 00:43, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Simon George
Likely hoax. No relevant Google hits for "Simon George" "All Black". Author has also created other apparent hoax articles.-gadfium 05:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom--Jusjih 06:25, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, I tried several searches on Google that turned up nothing . The closest I came was search for '"Simon George" "player of the year" -wiki', which yielded a lot of "terms only appear in links pointing to this page" hits but nothing truly substantive. Considering that grand claims are made that can't be verified, no choice but to assume a hoax until verification is provided. -- H·G (words/works) 07:00, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Followup: definite hoax, subject still goes to this high school, along with the other subjects of articles created by this user. -- H·G (words/works) 07:07, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * How does that make the article a hoax? The article itself states that xe is 16 years old.  What makes this article a hoax is that the Wellington Hurricanes' web site makes no mention of this person playing for that team, contrary to the claims in the article.  Uncle G 14:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * His continued presence on the high school team makes this a hoax because the article states that the subject has "made the leap" to professional circuits. Unless he's made the leap in the last five days, this pretty clearly invalidates anything in the article after his presence on the high school team. -- H·G (words/works) 20:10, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that the two are mutually exclusive. A lot of rugby league players in Australasia were simultaneously schoolboys and club representatives (not so sure about internationals), and I'd imagine the same can be true in union. That said, it makes it look pretty hoaxy, and probably goes some way towards explaining why his purported professional team doesn't know him. BigHaz 22:36, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, and I won't pretend I know more than I do about the rugby leagues in New Zealand. But as an element combined with the author's other hoax articles up for AfD, nothing relevant appearing in professional team literature, unsubstantiated claims of "being the finest first five New Zealand has produced since Grant Fox," etc., I'll agree that it all adds up to an almost-certain hoax. -- H·G (words/works) 23:53, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I quite agree. When taken as a whole, it's a hoax. When taken in relation to any of its specific parts, it bears an uncanny resemblance to a hoax. BigHaz 01:36, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Speedy removed from vote. --BrownHairedGirl 23:21, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 *  Speedy delete as per above and WP:SPEEDY item 1. --BrownHairedGirl 08:26, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * That criterion does not apply. Please learn what patent nonsense is and please do not abuse the criterion. Uncle G 14:16, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * oops, I had somehow missed the NOT before the list of criteria in WP:SPEEDY item 1 :(
 * Delete hoax. Z iggurat 08:34, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as per above   Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk  12:13, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete for obvious hoaxery. --Core des at talk. ^_^ 06:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)


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