Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Elwood Murderer


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The result was Speedy Deleted as I tagged this (NAC). SwisterTwister  talk  23:59, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

The Elwood Murderer

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Not notable and possibly a hoax Grahame (talk) 04:10, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Grahame (talk) 04:12, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. — Nizolan  (talk) 05:13, 13 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete – Nothing on Google, also inclined to think it's a hoax. — Nizolan  (talk) 05:13, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:GNG in any case: Can't find a thing about it, even when I searched Google web and news for "Elwood Canal" "Mary Jackson" and "Port Phillip" "Mary Jackson" and "St Kilda" "Mary Jackson". The Elwood Canal is a real place in Elwood, Victoria, but Elwood appears to be densely-populated and next to the city of Melbourne, and if people were getting offed repeatedly in the last 17 years, I assume some news of it would have leaked into a Google crawl and stayed there, even if it's a habit in Australia for some media to erase articles after a time.  So the article is either a hoax, or so bad that nobody else can figure out what events it's actually about, which qualifies as WP:CSD. --Closeapple (talk) 07:40, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete: either non-notable or non-existent: an extended search gives me nothing and no sources are given. Closest thing I could find is the murder of Mary Dean in 1931, which isn't close, and a recent murder in 2014. Could be a local urban legend, or could be entirely made up. — crh 23   &thinsp;(Talk) 09:29, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Must be a hoax - the most recent "murder" is supposed to have happened last year and there would surely be some mention of it online, somewhere - but there's nothing. Neiltonks (talk) 12:59, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per above, looks and smells like a hoax. Could probably be done under G3 for CSD Cannolis (talk) 15:36, 13 April 2016 (UTC)


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