Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Grinning Man (paranormal)


 * 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 was   Delete. Eluchil404 (talk) 17:53, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

The Grinning Man (paranormal)

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None of the references come close to meeting WP:Reliable sources guidelines. OhNo itsJamie Talk 13:50, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Oh, man, you know an article is in deep trouble when it tries to use UrbanDictionary as a source! Delete as above. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  14:15, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete references are not reliable. No indication of notability. --   Luke      (Talk)   14:22, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. I managed to find mention of the urban legend in two different encyclopedias of the supernatural, but I can't find any mention of this in any other source that could be considered to be a reliable source. None of the previous sources on the article were reliable and there were also issues with the tone of the article. I do want to say that as the original editor is new, they probably aren't as aware of what's considered to be a RS as others might be, so I'll leave a message on their page and go over this a little more with them. If they're interested, I have no problem with them moving a copy of the article into their userspace so they can continue to work on it at their leisure. This isn't an UL that's completely unnotable, although I'll say that it isn't along the same lines as the Jersey Devil. It just hasn't been covered in a lot of reliable sources that would show notability beyond a reasonable doubt.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 16:08, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Paranormal-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 18:39, 21 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Weak keep: in the hope that more references appear, and that the content of the article improves. I say let's give this one a chance to grow. HairyWombat 06:00, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete There just isn't enough notability demonstrated to show this is a widespread enough urban legend to deserve its own article. Sources given are unreliable, and 3 young teenagers are the main source of the stories. Not exactly trustworthy. The subject may be appropriate to mention within the John Keel article, so a redirect there might be possible. - LuckyLouie (talk) 18:13, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete, it appears that the article has been deleted before and I don't see any cited content in this recreation other than one booksource. Bob talk 18:03, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. It tackles the same subject as the old Grinning Man article;Articles for deletion/The Grinning Man (2nd nomination); pure violation of G4 (Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion).Kj plma (talk) 07:27, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.