Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steamboat crime


 * 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 of the debate was DELETE. &mdash; J I P | Talk 06:09, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Steamboat crime
This page was listed under cleanup, but I feel it should be deleted. The article has little or nothing to do with the title. It reads like a copyvio, but I can't prove it. Considering the Steamboat article mentions nothing about steamboat crime, I feel there is no need for an article about steamboat crime. &mdash;Brim 06:14, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's a straight copyvio: Google doesn't turn up anything. Suggest renaming to steamboat hijacking as per aircraft hijacking and carjacking. GeorgeStepanek\talk 07:20, 25 October 2005 (UTC) Delete based on evidence below. GeorgeStepanek\talk  05:15, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, possibly renaming. As usual, no deletion required. Trollderella 17:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Steamboat. --Aquillion 22:11, 25 October 2005 (UTC) Delete per Tabor, below. A Google search for Missippi River Picayune", a supposed periodical mentioned in the article, does indeed turn up no hits.  I am leaning towards either a hoax or a copyvio from a fictional work presented as factual material; in either case, delete. --Aquillion 20:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:V
 * Virtually nothing identifiable that can be verified: names, dates, etc.
 * The few details that are given are spurious.
 * Incident said to occur in St. Petersburg on the Mississippi in the 1840s. The place is fictional: it is the setting of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer (which was understood to be based on Hannibal, Missouri, but "St. Petersburg" does not in fact exist).  Coincidentally, 1840's is also the time Tom Sawyer is set in.  Perhaps Twain's novels would be the place to look for more information.
 * The only other identifiable element is the stories being said to appear in the "Missippi River Picayune". I so far been have been unable to verify the existence of this publication, even when correcting the spelling of Mississippi.
 * --Tabor 17:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)


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