Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tetievsky


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The result was delete. &mdash; Scientizzle 16:02, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Tetievsky

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I seriously doubt the veracity of this article. For one thing, I believe that there'd be books galore on the subject if there actually had been a 15-year old mobster boss in Russia at the turn of the 20th century. Of the two references provided, one is from a website that would probably not have any interest in that story and a site-specific Google search indicates that they never did publish anything on this subject. There's also a broken link to Britannica.com. After verification, there's no such article on Britannica. Compound that with a fairly far-fetched rags-to-riches meteoric rise of a 10-year old penniless orphan, death by leukemia at a time where it was still diagnosed only rarely, a father which grooms his son to be a mob-boss in his early teens. This just doesn't make sense and unless someone can come up with very solid references, we have to assume it's a hoax. Pichpich (talk) 19:14, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete - completely unverified, no available sources. WP:HOAX Fritzpoll (talk) 19:20, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nom Think outside the box 19:31, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete hoaxalicious Beeblbrox (talk) 20:03, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Rub out. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. But mainly, we just want sources that are credible. --Dhartung | Talk
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.   -- Fabrictramp (talk) 17:32, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions.   -- Fabrictramp (talk) 17:33, 30 March 2008 (UTC)


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