Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glenn barden

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 as apparent hoax. DS (talk) 05:14, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Glenn barden

This article is about an eleven year old student who supposedly won a bronze medal at the 2000 Commonwealth Youth Games. Google News Archives can find no record of this Capitalistroadster (talk) 21:50, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete as hoax, "glenn barden" + "bronze" turns up bupkis on Google. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 23:00, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. The one external link provided that would have provided satisfactory information per WP:V turned up an Error 404. --Blanchardb-Me^MyEars_MyMouth-timed 23:28, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment: The link is working now, but it doesn't provide any evidence for anything other than the fact that somebody with the same name ran in a non-notable race. Corvus cornix_talk 00:47, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete hoaxalicious. JuJube (talk) 04:05, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Although there is no proof of the correctness of this article, surely the fact not even the gold medal winner, or even results for this race show that the person who wrote this must have a degree of knowledge on these particular games, maybe as a points scorer or as a marshall perhaps? Has anyone tried contacting the author to see if this is the case? SamDurell (talk) 18:20, 26 November 2007*Note: This debate has been included in the list of Athletes-related deletions. -- the wub "?!" 13:09, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
• Comment: The above comment was User:SamDurell's first and (so far) only contribution to Wikipedia. And it doesn't even make sense. --Russ (talk) 19:09, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete: It's not our obligation to dig out obscure citations to prevent deletion of an article; the editor who created it should have provided them. --Russ (talk) 19:09, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Hi everyone, sorry this has caused quite so much controversy! As per Mr Durell's email I can confirm that I was indeed the "chief scorer" behind the 2000 Commonwealth Youth Games, and thought this article might be of interest to some people, not because of the athlete but because of the reaction through his disappointment. I have a newspaper article *I believe its from the Mail on Sunday* and I believe that the lad was featured on Grandstand where he explained his actions despite the grilling he received for 'letting down his country'. If I was to scan the newspaper article and save it on a server would that be enough to save my article? I was going to expand the whole 2000 Commonwealth Youth Games section upon wikipedia as I felt it was grately underrepresented for an event that took so much preparation, but if there is no interest in this article I doubt that there is much interest from other users for the rest of them?19:24, 26 November 2007 Edit - 19:30, clarification.
  • "I believe" is not a reliable source. Please provide sources to prove your claims. Corvus cornix_talk 21:34, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Well okay, to clarify - I KNOW the athlete was featured in a national newspaper the weekend after the event, but as I have just cut out the articles related to the youth commonwealths, I do NOT KNOW which newspaper it was from. I KNOW the athlete featured on a national TV sports show, but I do NOT KNOW which one. Britisholympic, 11:16, 27th November 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.86.144.52 (talk) 11:16, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
    • Your personal knowledge is also not a reliable source. Provide links to the newspaper article(s). Corvus cornix_talk 18:19, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. There wasn't even a 5000M event at these games.[1] Phil Bridger (talk) 12:33, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
  • I've suspected hoax on this article all along. Corvus cornix_talk 18:19, 27 November 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.