Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yaroslav Valazakov


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The result was delete. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 16:05, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Yaroslav Valazakov

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Apparently a hoax. No Google, GScholar or GBooks results apart from Wikipedia mirrors. None of the cited sources I was able to access actually mention anyone by this name. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 14:28, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
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 * Comment Circumstantial evidence for hoax: Jason Valazak was/is a social studies teacher at Nortwest High School in Germantown, MD. and the author of this article also edited (diff) the Northwest High School (Montgomery County, Maryland) article in 2009. 24.151.10.165 (talk) 15:33, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, does seem to be a hoax. Two of the refs that I could find online do not check out: Alfred Rambaud, Graeme Mercer Adam, “The history of Russia from the earliest times to 1877”, A.L. Burt, 1904 pg. 194 and: Paul K. Davis, “100 Decisive Battles From Ancient Times to the Present: The World’s Major Battles and how They Shaped History” Oxford University Press:1999, pg. 165. Smmurphy(Talk) 16:09, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as a hoax. They did a good job with it but this clearly shouldn't stay. Mortee (talk) 12:14, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete -- This is a surprising conclusion for an article that appears to have a number of references to works by respectable academic historians, but close inspection suggests that the references refer to historical events into which this story is woven; none of the citations appears directly to cover the fact (as opposed to the context), though I have not checked most of them out, but the two that come up on GBooks so not mention him, not GScholar (unless there are transliteration problems). Peterkingiron (talk) 15:51, 26 March 2017 (UTC)


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