Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dinlas

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 14:17, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dinlas

This unsourced article was originally blanked with an edit summary indicating it was a hoax. I reverted that and the editor indicated to me that it really is a hoax but apparently does not know the workings of the deletion process. A problem here is that the article has been up for about nine months and a google search [1] reveals many sites with the information. As far as I can tell all of those sites fork the information from this article or from List of Greek mythological figures where the name was added in by an ip whose only edit was that addition (see this diff [2]).

Some other hoax circumstantial evidence is provided by the fact that Greek city of "Lamark" mentioned in the article links to Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and I can find no confirmation of that city's existence through Google [3]. Accordingly, I suggest this article be deleted as a suspected hoax and as unverifiable unless and until someone with expertise in Greek mythology provides some confirmation. Note to closing administrator: If this article is deleted, the information in List of Greek mythological figures should be contemporaneously removed.--Fuhghettaboutit 15:09, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as per WP:HOAX ST47 15:39, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• L'Emprière's makes no mention of either one. This is unverifiable, and with the link mentioned, the removed content about prime numbers (see the older versions of the article), and the redirect from User:Dingler (the article's main author), has all of the appearance of a hoax. Delete. Uncle G 15:44, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per WP:HOAX ... all of the Google results are derived from this article. Dennette 22:25, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I originally identified this as a hoax for several reasons: the story-line does not have a classical "feel"; the names Dinlas and Lamark do not have the usual Greek name-suffixes; there is no mention of the character in the thorough multi-volume Dictionary of Classical Biography and Myth (Smith), including under entries of other gods which appear in the proposed story; and finally there is no ancient city named Lamark or anything similar. The entry must either be a hoax or the writer of the article obtained it from the work of some obscure modern fiction writer. Theranos 07:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, clearly a hoax. GregorB 20:59, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, not such Greek city or god. --Aduitsis 22:23, 24 August 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.