Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benjamin breeg

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 Delete. Fails WP:V with reliable sources. Shell ^babelfish 08:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Benjamin breeg

This appears to be a page about a fictonal character from a song by Iron Maiden that has developed into what appears to be a recent web hoax. BrianFG 13:20, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

• Trim and merge into The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:54, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge to The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg. Recury 17:35, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete unless some reliable sources can be found for this information. (benjaminbreeg.co.uk is a single page written and registered by an otherwise unidentified "A. Breeg", with an Alexa rating of nearly 2 million. http://www.benjaminbreeg.com is nothing more than an Iron Maiden fan's discussion board.) If enough sourced material allows for a substantial article on this supposed legend, then I'd change my vote. I'd recommend against merging any info to TRoBB unless without those same reliable sources for any material to be merged. Treat the whole thing as unencyclopedic gossip otherwise. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:38, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete since the article lacks any sort of reliable sources for its information; the linked websites certainly don't qualify. It seems like the whole thing is to get the name of the new Iron Maiden song out there by creating a backstory to get people talking. —LrdChaos 15:56, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge I agree with Recury, it should be merged with The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg, cos this is a perfectly good article on the matter, it just needs a new home, so to speak.--4.154.244.244 04:15, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep the article 'as is' until more light is shed on Benjamin Breeg. It maybe a hoax, but it maybe something real as well. Also, there's a Publius Enigma Wikipedia entry for the afforementioned Pink Floyds enigma, so there must a Wikipedia entry for Benjamin Breeg's enigma as well.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.155.201.170 (talk • contribs).
  • One bad article does not justify another one. If Publius Enigma is properly sourced, those sources justify its existence, and this article is therefore nothing like it (as it has no reliable sources). If instead that article is not properly sourced, it should go, too. Whether this article is a hoax or not is not for Wikipedians to decide. If we can't find reliable sources either for its accuracy or its hoax nature, we are not supposed to be writing about it in the first place. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:36, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge with List of hoaxes —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.155.202.159 (talk • contribs) 15:16, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
• Trim and Merge I agree that the article should be merged with The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg. If I remember correctly, a previous version of the article had been written in a more speculative tone, referring to the source websites and stating clearly that the information from www.benjaminbreeg.co.uk is suspect, and possibly a deliberate enigma. This would appear to me as a much better way to present the article; the present one relays the information as fact.--Ian404 09:30, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Mailer Diablo 23:25, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

• Merge' Definatly merge with the Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg page. --[[User:UltimateDingbat|UltimateDingbat] 14:18, 13th August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep at least until the Iron Maiden single and album are released, and then once the story is complete then Merge with The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg page as a record of what was done to promote the single (If it was all fiction as seems to be belived).

• Merge with The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg article, and change this article to a redirect. Andrew (My talk) 17:25, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

• Trim and merge - remove all the stuff that was copy-pasted (that leaves us with just the lead section). — Prodigenous Zee - 16:18, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete this article since there is no evidence besides a doubtful website. Furthermore, the website displays a picture from the single by the band of Iron Maiden. The coincidence of this A. Breeg fellow finding a certain painting at the same time that the single is released is evidence of a hoax. A. Breeg's picture is nothing but a nicely done version of "Eddie," which is Iron Maiden's perrenial death faced character. Delete this article entirely, and fix the Reincarnation Article to include mention of this hoax. —oemb1905 18:04, 21 August 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.