Wikipedia talk:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Fredric Croix and Quickslide Rick

As one of the main editors of this page, I must defend it from "The ed17"'s request to delete is under the assumption it is a hoax. I am a music student at The University of Michigan. Although I am an undergraduate I have done extensive research on American roots music, especially Blues music. Having lived in Gwinn, Michigan for a period of my life, I was extremely surprised to when I read in a professor's historical monograph, that an early pre-war blues group was from the Gwinn area, (I will site this book as a souse pending my ability to borrow it from my professor).

I can't speak for what information is available at the Gwinn historical society, beings that I have never personally been there. But I am aware of at least two scholastic monograms which attest to the existence of this blues group.

As for Wikipedia's grounds for suspicion on this article being a hoax, and the fact that at the moment I am writing this I do not have access to the two monographs I listed above to cite as references to this article I can only support the article "Fredric Croix and Quickslide Rick" by pointing out a few key facts that separate this article from others which are indeed hoaxes.

1.) this article was created by a registered user to appears to have made many contributions to many different blues articles, which are just as reputable as "Fredric Croix and Quickslide Rick".

2.) There have been many other registered users (myself included) who have made edits to this page, adding information from sources most likely taken from monographs on American Blues.

3.) Unlike many other hoax articles, "Fredric Croix and Quickslide Rick" has never been orphaned, and has never been stagnated for more than a period of a few months.

4.) The amount of non-registered users who have edited this page is quite large, and the diversity of the ISP addresses is astonishing. It seems unlikely that a number of wiki-users from ISP's located across the country would be somehow working together to create a rather small hoax about a pre-war blues group.

5.) The amount of non-wiki websites that have information about "Fredric Croix and Quickslide Rick" is of a fairly good size. Upon using Google to search there names, I came across three Blues related websites, three real estate websites on the Gwinn area, and one travel website, which reference Fredric Croix and Quickslide Rick as being two blues musicians hailing from the Gwinn area, and as being of moderate popularity during the 1920's.

I conclude by restating, that I will reference the two monographs that discuss these musicians in them, which should be of sufficient evidence to prove that this article is not indeed a hoax, pending there availably from my professor. In the mean time, I hope that whomever is responsible in the final decision for the future of this page will consider the amount of evidence which I have given that separates this page from articles that are indeed hoaxes.

-SukkaPunch321