Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Demeny

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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 15:04, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] George Demeny

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Suspected hoax. The list of references is impressive but I don't think any of them refer to Demeny, while at least some of the text has been plagiarised from here: [1] There are also no obvious Google results for anyone called George Demeny in the Revolt, which seems strange if he really was a top commander. Maybe someone who knows the history of this in detail should check it out? Moyabrit 15:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Note Check out SteveBaker he created the article, I found it doubtful that he created a hoax article as he is an established and hard working editor. --Daniel J. Leivick 16:45, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Important Note I did indeed create the article on Dec 26th 2006 - but only in response to an AfC request from User:Phas3d (as you can see, I clearly noted this in the very first entry to the edit history) The original AfC request (and my reponse to it) is here: Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-12-25#George_Demeny_.28Demene.29. I noted at the time that the list of references appeared to be copy/pasted and requested that the submitter fix that ASAP. I regret that I do not recall what background checks I did to ensure that the article was 'for real' - but I'm usually fairly sceptical so I probably checked something. In retrospect, it is a little unlikely that User:Phas3d would produce such a well-referenced article as his/her very first contribution...he/she hasn't produced anything else after that. At any rate, I have no personal attachment to the article - I don't really care whether it stays or goes. My profuse apologies if I allowed junk into the Encyclopedia - that was most certainly not my goal! SteveBaker 17:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - the hoax theory is quite likely. There is a French artist under that name on Google, but he does not appear to have any commonability with this article. Also, I note that there are no Hungarian entries under that name (strange for a Hungarian Restitance Leader). Even the name doesn't sound Hungarian. HagenUK 20:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, WjBscribe 04:14, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Delete I looked for twenty minutes and found no ref with connection between this person and Hungary. --killing sparrows 05:00, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete - Remember, Hungarian names are typically written family name first - a Google search on "Demeny George" does bring up a few hits, albeit mostly from Wikipedia mirror sites - none appear to relate to this character. - Iridescenti (talk to me!) 22:35, 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.