Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gate32

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. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-07 06:21Z

[edit] Gate32

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I have been watching this article for several days now after watching edit wars on Recent Changes. I have listed the main issue I have with the article on its talk page: The only sources listed are 2 MySpace pages and a Greek website. The other issue is that another user has mentioned that he believes the group Gate32 is a hoax. While this cannot be proven 100%, the author has not attempted to prove that the group is not a hoax. Instead, the article's original author, who is also named Gate32^{(contribs/talk)}, simply removes the Hoax and Prod tags from the article without any discussion on the talk page. This has happened 4 times now. The last Prod tag was dated 2/24/2007, and the 5 day waiting period expired without the author addressing the issues with his page. That is, until he removed the tags this evening. Since the author will not cite his references, the group mentioned in the article is dubious, and the author continues to vandalize and remove relevant tags, I figure that the article is more of a nuisance than informative. However, if the author will actually cite relevant and appropriate sources for the information, I see no need to remove the article. Mec modifier ^{(talk/contribs)} 04:06, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, no relevant Google hits, appears to be a hoax. John Reaves (talk) 04:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - no reliable sources that either assert or support notability, or attribution. Appears to be self-promotional in nature, and probably is a hoax. --Haemo 04:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Reads like propaganda if anything else. "...prominent Greek businessmen and politicians are in fact Albanians." Intinn^Talk! 09:35, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete To me, it reads like excitable boi stuff. If they rise to the level of terrorism, then they will be appropriate in a discussion of ongoing terrorism. At present, it looks like 'street cred' in a weird form. Delete as essay and failing WP:V and not establishing notability of the group. Utgard Loki 15:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete No evidence that this group even exists, let alone is notable. -Elmer Clark 05:24, 6 March 2007 (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.