Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/African Musical Awards

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. W.marsh 18:34, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] African Musical Awards

Cannot locate any external references to these music awards, including reviewing websites of some artists identified as either recipients or presenters. Article has mainly been edited by two anon IPs, one from Caracas and one from Montevideo. No discussion of these awards on the website of the supposed host network, MTV base (Africa). Risker 16:30, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - a very pervasive possible vandal. all google results are wikipedia/wikimirrors. 'awards' for this thing were given to artists' articles by the same IPs. sometimes i think there is a team of 100 reporters out there trying to slip in false info just to write a piece on how they busted wikipedia wide open. anywho, this isn't notable and hasn't been verified, so delete. JoeSmack ^Talk(p-review!) 17:50, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Good point, JoeSmack. I have deleted the information from the artists' articles. Should this article not be deleted, they can always be added again;incidentally, I checked the official websites of every artist linked, and not one of them discussed this award. Risker 05:08, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - After a short search, pretty sure it exists. --Deenoe 01:51, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Comment: Could you describe why you concluded so? I'm not sure whether these awards exist or not, but certainly this article is full of misinformation. Julius Sahara 20:28, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete As I said, too much misinformation. Secondly, verifiability is very low Julius Sahara 21:03, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, seems to be a big hoax. --musicpvm 15:20, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Yep, it's a hoax. If MTV actually sponsored it, it would be the African Music Awards, not 'musical'. The 'memorable moments' are satires of some previous appearances on the MTV Video Music Awards – Britney Spears appeared one year at the VMAs with a snake, and so on. It's ridiculous. If I were an admin I'd delete it myself. KrakatoaKatie 11:07, 3 November 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.