Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Three pronged revolver


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 01:14, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Three pronged revolver

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Questionable notability. The author said in removing the PROD notice that it's "a well-known event in local Irish history", and the first sentence says it's a "famous incident", but the author provides no references, and I can't find any reference to it via Google. Largo Plazo (talk) 11:13, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - seems entirely made up, and considering the author reverts Lurgan on what appears to be a COI basis I have doubts over the legitimacy. As above no google references beyond wikipedia, or links to it. --Blowdart | talk 11:20, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - Potentially speedy as flagrant vandalism. Revolvers did not exist in 1790, and the article is in places unsalvageably incoherent. AlexTiefling (talk) 15:28, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Good point, though not strictly true. The revolver article traces them back to 1597. However, the Oxford English Dictionary attests the word "revolver" only as far back as 1835, well after 1790. The article doesn't say when the poem was supposed to have been written. It could have been much later then the alleged event. But then, how likely is it that a new, jocular expression like "three pronged revolver" would have been coined two generations or more after the event? That would be like us coining new terms now for events that occurred around 1960. &#8212;Largo Plazo (talk) 15:56, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I concede the historical point, obviously! The whole thing is clearly WP:BOLLOCKS, and I suspect there's some element of sectarian abuse in there, although it's so poorly written I can't be sure. I'm more convinced than ever that we can speedy this. AlexTiefling (talk) 16:37, 29 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete: Fails WP:RS.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 09:24, 30 September 2008 (UTC)


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