Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tamak


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The result was   delete. — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 04:52, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Tamak

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 * The listed book do not mention "tamak". I failed to find evidence. Hoax? Staszek Lem (talk) 23:12, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Seems clearly to be a hoax to me, particularly since the claimed meaning of the word "Tamak" is "prank". The extensive bibliography includes only books that clearly would not mention this work (they are in English; this is an obscure word from an obscure country), so the bibliography is bogus. I'd give long odds that this is a case of "How long can I fool Wikipedia with a new article I create?" Suggest speedy delete. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:45, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete: regardless of potential hoax status the article should be deleted based on WP:NOTNEO since it seems to claim that the term is a rather recent invention. Ducknish (talk) 02:54, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Googling it failed to find evidence that is exsists, when you click on the bit. --''TheChampionMan1234 04:44, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. This feels very hoaxsome; John Broughton's point about the bibliography is an excellent one.
 * Searching for "тамак" at an online Kyrgyz-English dictionary yields no results. Translating "food" from English to Kyrgyz at the same site yields nothing that looks like it'd be transliterated "tamak".  However, a similar word, "tamaktar" (тамактар) appears in the "Meals" section of a Peace Corps Kyrgyz language manual (about 2/3 of the way down p. 98), and a blog by a Peace Corps volunteer includes an entry titled "Tamak!" that deals with food.
 * An earlier version of the article states, "The term Tamak describing a concrete practical joke went viral in Scandinavia on social networking service Twitter because of a mini documentary made in Kyrgyzstan by norwegian talkshow hosts and artist Ylvis aired september 26nd 2012 on Norwegian network TVNorge." Is it possible that this was a Borat-style mockumentary?
 * Hoax or not, searching Google for (tamak kyrgyz joke) and (tamak kyrgyz prank) yielded no results. The onus is on the article's creators/defenders to find reliable sources for this.  Ammodramus (talk) 04:27, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
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