Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aría

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was speedy delete, WP:SNOW.  RasputinAXP  c 01:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aría

Okay... bear with me here. This is a very long article that obviously some people have put a lot of time into. It describes a supposed "sociological experiment" in Baltimore, Maryland that ran from 2001 to 2003. The problem is... as far as I can tell the article is fiction, or at least describes something that has not been mentioned in print (or even blogs apparently). It lists 3 references, none of which mention this project, that I can tell. The names of the 3 academics who supposedly conducted it get no Google results outside Wikipedia [1], [2], [3]. I'm not going to venture a guess as to the reason this elaborate apparent hoax was written, but it definently doesn't belong on Wikipedia. --W.marsh 13:09, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as hoax. Two of the references cited are blogs which have nothing to do with the article content, and the other reference only supports one tangential sentence in the article and makes no reference to the sociological experiment. It may be worthwhile to ask the contributors why they added this content to Wikipedia. --Metropolitan90 13:43, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as hoax. No sources cited that actually verify the article and the experiment as described is unlikely to pass ethical standard on experiments on humans. -- Whpq 13:51, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Two of the article contributors' histories make interesting and suggestive reading... Vizjim 14:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, garbage. Proto::type 15:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete with extreme prejudice. More of the hoax stuff perpetrated by the people who have been salting Wikipedia with nonsense about the Eyre/Heller families, which have been deleted, as well. And thanks for the suggestion to review the contributors' histories, as it led me to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Knowlton Estate, below. User:Zoe|^(talk) 16:10, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete made up in school one dayHipocrite - «Talk» 16:47, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete fast. Funny experiment I suppose but not for WP. rootology 16:55, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per failure of verification.--Isotope23 17:04, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and salt the earth. Hoax.--Toffile 17:09, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Please don't salt, it's a common enough word. Just redirect to Aria and lock the redirection page. rootology 17:10, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Fair enough.--Toffile 18:12, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete, fails WP:HOAX and WP:NFT. Create the redirect after this article is deleted (it's easier that way). --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 17:39, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, I hate hoaxes. NawlinWiki 18:31, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, nonsense. Naconkantari 21:11, 26 July 2006 (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.