Wikipedia talk:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Rough Creek Ranch

Apparent joke edits
Between 18 February and 23 February 2010 a series of edits added a settlement infobox and description of Rough Creek Ranch as community of one person. The prose was written in bureaucratic style (e.g. "There was 1 household out of which 0.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 0.0% were married couples living together, 0.0% had a female householder" etc.). It appears that this parody may have been written as a joke, or possibly as a political statement. In either case, it does not appear to be in the spirit of the encyclopedia, and I have rolled back these edits.

In the process of rolling back the edits, I removed a prod template. The editor who added the prod did not include a 'concern' parameter, and the edit summary read, "try this method of deletion". If, as I suspect, the decision to delete was prompted by the joke edits, I think rollback was a better solution. If editors still feel that this current stub should be deleted (there are no third-party sources or clear indication of notability), then the page can still be deleted via articles for deletion discussion. Cnilep (talk) 16:46, 24 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I trying to assist 24.181.176.79, who added Delete My Page and "I wish to have this page removed." to the article. I didn't look far enough back in the history to realize that this had once been a serious article.  I apologize for my oversight. --Stepheng3 (talk) 17:03, 24 February 2010 (UTC)