Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yar Mohammad Khan


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The result was   delete. Snow, as hoax DGG (talk) 04:40, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Yar Mohammad Khan

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This article is a hoax. No reference exists for a person under this name who has won the Victoria Cross. All recipients of the Victoria Cross are listed in the London Gazette and this person has no listing, he has no listing in a well-used reference work regarding VCs, Max Arthur's Symbols of courage. There is no listing in the National Archives, no web references to suggest this might be an alternative name. The user who created this has not responded to concerns though he has continued to edit. Note user created two articles: this and Raja Saadat Khan. Also see discussion at Wikipedia_talk:MILHIST Woody (talk) 18:55, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. TomStar81 (Talk) 20:08, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete VC holders are well documented. This cannot be legitimate.  Gwinva (talk) 23:38, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions.  —AustralianRupert (talk) 00:07, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: There is some mention of a Yar Mohammad Khan when doing a search on Google books and elsewhere but not in relation to being a VC recipient. I have spent many hours trying to find something and have poured through the National Archives VC register and can not find this man. Based on this and the input that the nominator has made at the discussion mentioned above, I believe that this article should be deleted. It is either the undocumented alternative name for a VC recipient or a hoax. Given that the creator has not taken on board the comments that I left on their talk page asking for verifiable sources I feel that in the best interests of the integrity of the project and the hard work that many contributors performed in building up the database of VC recipients (not to mention the disservice that fake recipients do to those that a actual recipients) that this article should be deleted. — AustralianRupert (talk) 00:17, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * delete per nom David Underdown (talk) 11:28, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax. Ironholds (talk) 13:23, 4 August 2009 (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.