Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benjamin Coffer

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 of the debate was delete. The Land 00:27, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Benjamin Coffer

• Delete Hoax Mib1 13:57, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Mind explaining why it's a hoax? No google hits outside WP mirrors, admittedly, and no sources cited, but the google count isn't so strange considering what he's notable for is supposed to have happened in 1968 and he died in 1985. No vote for now. Sam Vimes 14:15, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Benjamin Coffer is an English student at St John's College, Oxford. It is likely he was born in 1985. Students at this college have a history of fictitious Wikipedia posts. For example, Jon Day (see deleted pages). This is a waste of everybody's time.

• Delete --Terence Ong (恭喜发财) 14:36, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Delete. Smacks of original research -- all of the sources are from letters (from Rickards and Osborne, and to Creighton), which appear to have been reviewed and assembled into a theory on Coffer's importance. Even if the claims prove true, it's not clear his accomplishments were notable enough to deserve an entry. Basically, even if this guy did all this and deserves recognition for it, we must wait for someone else to determine that and publish it before we can include him in WP. Powers 15:56, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Furthermore, all this "unpublished letters" stuff stinks of hoax. --Agamemnon2 09:40, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Probable hoax from the SJC dicks. There's a "What links here" that needs de-hoaxifying too. GWO

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