Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vanessa Wan de Loitte


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The result was   Speedily deleted as almost-certain hoax, WP:SNOW. Tabercil (talk) 23:16, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Vanessa Wan de Loitte

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Unsourced bio. Searching Google for the name alone, or with anthropologist or Burkina Faso throws up nothing relevant. The University of Waterloo search page also returns no results for a supposed professor there. Unless somebody can provide reliable sources, I think this is nothing but a hoax. GraemeL (talk) 13:11, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as possible hoax. Same conclusion as GraemeL. No results for different combination of search strings. LeaveSleaves talk 15:28, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete No reliable sources. Recommend someone delete her from the list of Yale University people as well. BritishWatcher (talk) 17:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above and doesn't pass WP:Notability. Hairy  Perry  19:52, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete since this is either a hoax or the least notable professor ever. The lack of any results for a Google, ISI Thompson, Google Scholar, and Waterloo search make this seem improbable at best. B figura  (talk) 23:24, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. Found nothing to support this bio. Staib (talk) 03:01, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —David Eppstein (talk) 05:26, 22 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. In addition to the evidence of a hoax suggested above, I can find nothing on Amazon, Google Scholar, or Google Books suggesting the existence of the memoirs she supposedly published in 1993.  Is WP:HOAX sufficient grounds for a speedy deletion?  RJC  TalkContribs 05:36, 22 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete, almost certainly a hoax. Googlesearch gives just one hit, to this Wikipedia article. Nsk92 (talk) 05:42, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - Pretty blatant hoax, or seems to have fallen off of the face of the earth ever since the article was created &mdash; neuro(talk) 09:48, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. More evidence that it is a hoax. No entries for books authored by her on Worldcat, nor any entries for “In the Heart of Africa” or “The Dioula Language”. Odd surname – a Google search returns nobody in the world with that surname.--Eric Yurken (talk) 15:49, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:00, 23 November 2008 (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.