Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Devil's river

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 13:45, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Devil's river

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This article is unsourced, contains unverifiable and likely false information about the phenomenon (thousands of rivers flow north in Asia, North Africa, Europe, Canada, Australia, and the Indonesian archipelago), contains unverifiable claims about why the supposed phenomenon exists, and does not assert the notability of the phrase "devil's river". For all the article says, the phrase (and the explanation) could have been created by the article's original writer out of thin air. If "devil's river" really is a commonly used term, the article should say at the very least who uses it, why they use it, and whether the belief is supported by reliable sources (and if so, those sources should be given). Charlene 18:49, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as nominator. Also check the article's talk page; is this a hoax? --Charlene 18:57, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per previous related afd. meshach 20:04, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as probable hoax or at best very rare usage. Google Books search turned up nothing corroborating. --Dhartung | Talk 20:09, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete seems like a hoax, does not help that the See Also is a non-existant wiki link either.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 20:23, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete unless thoroughly verified (which seems at first glance and with a short Google search unlikely). Fram 20:27, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. As non-notable and possible hoax. Spinach Dip 21:56, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. That "most" rivers flow south is a falsehood primarily existing among Americans; few rivers in the USA flow north merely because most of the USA lies south of the Hudson or Arctic basins. As stated, thousands of north-flowing rivers exist elsewhere, including such major watercourses as the Nile, Mackenzie, Rhine, Yenisei, Nelson, Lena, etc. Four of the ten longest river systems of the world flow north. - Montréalais 21:26, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

This description of a river was mentioned in a college level geography class that I had (c.1985) and the reference was made to a local river since I was a young en' back in the 70's; It could be it has fallen in to disuse or would require a long trip to the library to veryify? Either way I dont care enough to do the leg work to source it out. Just delete it if you must but dont just accuse people of making stuff up because you can't easily verify with a search engine, the internet is not the be-all-end-all of human knowlege and experience. There is no such thing as the tide either, water just goes where it wants to. 70.35.199.57 16:06, 16 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.