Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aric Gilinsky

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The result was delete. Sr13 06:27, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aric Gilinsky

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Likely to be a hoax, Only returns 21 hits on google, with the majrity of those being from wikipedia and wikipedia mirrors [1] Exarion 21:22, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

  • weak delete as per Exarion. Guroadrunner 22:11, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as unsourced and total WP:Complete Bollocks. Eddie.willers 12:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
    • Light Fisking. OK, the article claims that 'Gilinsky's' family included an architect with unknown lineage (possibly American born, possibly Byelorussian) and a businessman of Besserabian descent - yet Gilinsky's family are supposedly Polish and Lithuanian. Secondly, he goes to study theology in 1992 and joins a radical Jewish/Zionist organisation (which he leaves in 1996) but doesn't actually 'find religion' and begin attending temple until 1996. Thirdly, he is supposedly becomes a rabbi within three years of his becoming religious, even though the Wiki article says a man obtains semicha ("rabbinic ordination") after the completion of an arduous learning program. Fourthly, googling 'Newsnight' or 'BBC' with 'Gilinsky' turns up nothing that supports the claim of there having been an interview on said BBC program. What else? Eddie.willers 19:14, 18 June 2007 (UTC
    • Comment Actually if you read it it says he refused the Newsnight interview.
  • keep It's all true. CicDog 12:17, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Snowball delete as hoax.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 16:40, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete 7 ghits when you filter out wikipedia. JodyB talk 21:44, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete above reasoning. Acalamari 22:56, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
  • keep I have some knowledge of these events but I can't understand the low press cobverage - it was a big story at the time... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.108.185.226 (talk • contribs)
  • Comment Same author as of Star of Poland. See my comment there at about new historians. greg park avenue 22:35, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
  • keep it seems too detailed and rings so truly that I doubt it's a hoax. Jimmy Deleter 10:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
  • keep as per above StOfPo 20:10, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Unsourced hoax. Edward321 23:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
  • keep it's perfectly true 212.219.250.5 09:22, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete the purpose of the article is to incite hatred towards Islam. Jackaranga 09:29, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Comment All the people who have voted keep so far are either unregistered or just registered today, and their only contributions are voting on this, with the exception of CicDog who is the one having created the article. Also it is not a hoax but more like political propaganda. Jackaranga 09:34, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete Appears to be an elaborate malicious hoax. Huwlepolonais2 18:42, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Pancakes Why would this article incite hatred towards Islam? If anything it would spark a negative reaction against radical zionism. MetricMilitia 22:38, 18 June 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.