Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Die Ritter von Bork

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 of the debate was delete. – Robert 15:31, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Die Ritter von Bork

Allegedly, a Knights Templar splinter group turned American mobsters. Already "Bork" suggests a hoax, and "Ritter von Bork" scored a perfect zero Google hits yesterday (today Google seems to be slightly ill, and suggests 62 links, none of which actually seem to contain the phrase). If they indeed "operated toll gates on all the major rivers in Germany and Modern day Austria", there would surely have been Googlable mentions. Delete as sourceless hoax. Henning Makholm 12:30, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

• A prod was contested by an anon (70.32.10.59) who added on the talk page:

Often times things about the Knigts Templar and any other group from that era are hard to find. Is it possible that the author is a mason, and cannot give us the sources?

Said anon's only logged contributions is removing the prod and vandalising Bork to point exclusively to Die Ritter von Bork. Suspect anon is identical to User:11spike whose only contrib is creating Die Ritter von Bork. In any case, the explanation offered here is not a valid argument for keeping, because it directly contradicts Wikipedia's fundamental verifiability standard. Henning Makholm 12:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Metamagician3000 12:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom and WP:V--blue520 13:07, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Blue520. Gwernol 14:35, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Blue520. Note if they are notable there will be Historical References to cite.-Tollwutig 18:02, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Concur with hoax-delete -- Simon Cursitor 07:32, 12 April 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.