Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Society for the Preservation of Waffle Irons

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete (someone else can BJAODN it, but I was only lukewarm about it). Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:22, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Society for the Preservation of Waffle Irons
This appears to be a hoax. While I realise google isn't a reliable determiner of everything, all of the following searches get 0 hits: Other searches do return results, but nothing apparently relevant -
 * "Society for the Preservation of Waffle Irons"
 * Society for the "Preservation of Waffle Irons"
 * "Waffle iron preservation"
 * "Ian L. Chalmers"
 * "Ian Chalmers" "Waffle iron" (There appear to be at least three different professors named Ian Chalmers)
 * "Ian Chalmers" "Red China"
 * "Waffle iron" "Red China" - almost all from different sections of "on this day..." type pages
 * "Waffle iron" "preservation society" - various preservation society pages, the Xanau Preservation Society movie and, curiously, adverts for escort girl sites. Thryduulf 15:49, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Smells like a hoax. --InShaneee 15:51, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, and kudos to Thryduulf for his diligence in verifying that this is a hoax. Meelar (talk) 15:51, May 26, 2005 (UTC)`
 * Delete, please see WP:AN/I for the anon's contributions page, so year and day articles can also be cleared. Mgm|(talk) 15:52, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Definite hoax aroma. --khaosworks 16:15, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Hoax. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:19, 26 May 2005
 * BJAODN --24.158.179.87 16:31, 26 May 2005 (UTC)(UTC)
 * Delete No Brooklyn, NY telephone directories list this organization, either---Outlander 16:33, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and while we're at it the anon user who keeps trying to add this to the 2003 page and has had his entry reverted twice should be reported for vandalism, if this hasn't been done already. PatGallacher 16:39, 2005 May 26 (UTC)
 * That doesn't mean his other edits should be reverted on sight though - was a valid edit. --SPUI (talk) 17:54, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * BJAODN. Scimitar 16:53, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or BJAODN, if appropriate. "Society for the Preservation of Waffle Irons" gets zero Google hits, as does "Preservation of Waffle Irons".
 * Unsigned vote by Deathphoenix. Thryduulf 17:18, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Woops. One of these days... --Deathphoenix 13:54, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * BJAODN. Someone will find it funny. --Aurochs
 * Delete (Not funny enough for BJAODN, IMHO) and congratulations to the nominator for excellent and thorough research. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 18:41, May 26, 2005 (UTC)


 * BJAODN. Seems like a hoax, and an almost plausible one. Given the randomness of the postings from that ip it could be a public access computer or part of an unsecured wireless network. Spotteddogsdotorg 20:37, 26 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete: Weird hoax, but I really want to know what those call girls are doing with those waffle irons. (Check that: no, I don't.) Geogre 21:25, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, hoax (but not funny enough for BJAODN). Megan1967 05:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep Please check http://www.geocities.com/wafflepreservation/! (vote by user:209.137.173.69, who has been around since 18 May (I suspect the 30 December contribution was a different user with the same IP)). Thryduulf 16:52, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I have to say I remain unconvinced by a single page website hosted on geocities that I could have created inside 10 minutes writing the html in vi. Google doesn't know about it, suggesting that it hasn't been around a very long time, although there are now 4 results for "Society for the Preservation of Waffle Irons" - this page, WP:VFDL, Votes for deletion (long form) and User:AllyUnion/VFD List. no change of vote. Thryduulf 16:42, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * BJAODN Quite funny hoax, and their website is basically the same text for the entry and frankly I am all for organisations that want to stop Wal-Mart and China. FREE TIBET! --Toasthaven 15:54, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * BJODN Blackcats 07:28, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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