Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British Computer Technology Awards

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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 14:45, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] British Computer Technology Awards

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Somebody called this a hoax on the article's page. Checking it out I find no references to show this award exists. The web page looks like a email harvesting operation and the same user User: Andy Webster has only this edit and the addition of links to BCTA on other computer related articles. I think he is also the anon IP that has added similar links. I'm new and don't know how to track all this down, but it smells like bad fish to me. If I'm wrong I'll take my lashes. killing sparrows 00:36, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete very fishy, to say the least. No information on its own website, and only 14 unique Google hits. Hmm. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 00:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Is it spam if its actaully a hoax? Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 00:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Yup, looks like is just some kind of spam/hoax. --- RockMFR 01:32, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Clearly spam HornandsoccerTalk 01:36, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Spam, hoax or otherwise undesirable. Realkyhick 01:48, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - It's a hoax--$UIT 01:49, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy Delete Per Nom. Slavlin 02:23, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I also checked Google and looked around, looks like a hoax. I see that some work has been put in wikilinking it Special:Whatlinkshere/British_Computer_Technology_Awards so I am going to go unwikilink them. Jeepday 02:43, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment from nominator. I saw the creator's (and , I think, two other IP's) edit hx showing links added to other articles. Does someone automatically chase these down? I've seen the same thing on spam that I've Afd'd or Speedy'd and wondered how that gets dealt with. --killing sparrows 03:10, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Some editors that close AfD's also clean up the mess. I personally always (try to) take responsibility for cleaning up if the result is delete. I figure that if you don't clean up the red links someone is going to feel obligated to write the article and again, then we have to AfD again, then... Signed Jeepday 03:36, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - per nom. Fails/meets WP:HOAX. Morenooso 04:31, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. CattleGirl talk | sign! 08:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Fails WP:HOAX. --Meno25 13:29, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete spam. Acalamari 18:38, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per morenooso. --JianLi 20:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Spam, a hoax, and nonsense. - Denny 21:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete Its a hoax!!! --James, La gloria è a dio 22:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete Kill it, it's some sort of hoax/spam/catcher--dick 22:29, 29 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.