Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenneth Bekoe

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. - Mailer Diablo 05:17, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kenneth Bekoe

An anonymous editor at WP:AFC noted as follows: These articels seem to be part of a concerted hoax. Cursory Googling of all of them turns up no supporting evidence despite several superlative ("First", "best", "most") claims and one extremely precise statistic. All articels are totally unsourced. 68.39.174.238 21:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC) I would describe these articles as a walled garden of articles which attempt to support each other, but which find no verification elsewhere on the Internet. Substantially all Google hits for this person and the related subjects to be nominated below come from Wikipedia and its mirrors. --Metropolitan90 06:38, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

• I am also nominating the following related pages because they are also unverified, unsourced parts of this walled garden:
  • African Teachers In England Union
  • Malian Brain of the year
  • British Teachers of African Origin awards

--Metropolitan90 06:44, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete: seems like almost a textbook definition of a walled garden. The entire thing reeks of hoaxosity, possibly vanity as well. Somewhere in Mali, Kenneth is going to be pissed. --Daniel Olsen 07:01, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per well-researched nom, and special thanks to Metropolitan90 for wading through all this crud. My Alt Account 07:09, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Just to give credit where it's due, the research for this AfD was done by User:68.39.174.238, who I have since learned is an experienced editor who has declined to register despite having over 10,000 edits. --Metropolitan90 07:25, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

In all honesty, User:Stuartyeates was the one who started this train: He whacked all 4 of these articels with {{hoax}}. I listed them on AfC and Met took it from there. 68.39.174.238 23:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Thanks for catching it.--Bookandcoffee 09:21, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Unverifiable. Don't think the creator of said articles has made a serious edit yet, which would tend to suggest this is a hoax too. Ohconfucius 07:14, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

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