Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dinger McCloud

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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 03:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dinger McCloud

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Unreferenced and probably a hoax Greenshed 01:05, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete Obvious hoax. Also Dinger McCloud Museum should be deleted for same reason. Bencherlite 01:16, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete both. I couldn't find any sources for either one except numerous mirror sites (many of which comically sported a notice of this AfD). And let's not forget to cleanup afterwards. Dar-Ape 01:53, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete both Gets a few mirror ghits, none on gbooks. found one link that looked like it might got to a news article but the news article did not open. Even if it passed WP:V (which it fails) it would also fail WP:N. I will drop a prod on the Dinger McCloud Museum just to cover the bases, it should be ripe when this is done. Jeepday 04:01, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete unless sourced by end of this AfD Alf photoman 14:22, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete both Looks like a hoax at face value. A famous pilot no one has heard of??? Fundamental Dan 16:29, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as a hoax. An extensive search of the Times Digital Archive fails to turn up any mentions. I would expect such a biography would at the very least contain a reference to the rank which he attained, the squadrons he flew with and the aircraft he flew; this one has none of the above. Sam Blacketer 22:52, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep A source has been added to the bottom of the page, which clears up some of the factual inconsistancies in the article.IDontGetThatJoke, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. Is the source also a hoax? The anon IP who added it has been warned for vandalism (User talk:69.181.252.181). The reference (http://randomkindaguy.googlepages.com/dingermccloud) is on Google Pages - a site for creating your own pages, not an aviation or military history site. The person in the blurred photograph is not wearing any recognizable RAF-pattern uniform. The WayBackMachine has not indexed it (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://randomkindaguy.googlepages.com/dingermccloud) suggesting the page was created recently. Greenshed 00:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
  • KeepJust because you've never heard of Dinger McCloud doesn't mean he doesn't exist. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.127.162.41 (talk) 07:15, 19 February 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.