Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hugh Chippingford-Watson

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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. Davewild (talk) 11:25, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hugh Chippingford-Watson

Hugh Chippingford-Watson (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Hoax. There are no google hits for the subject, the content is implausible, and the image is of Ralph Thoresby (I tagged the image for speedy 12+ hours ago, it may disappear by the end of this debate). Contested prod. Mr Stephen (talk) 15:09, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete as per nom. — HelloAnnyong [ t · c ] 15:25, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Delete. I want to think this is a funny joke, but most of it is just.... odd. I like the portrait of Thoresby, though. I've always wondered why aren't hoaxes subject to speedy deletion....--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back (talk) 15:26, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete as hoax. The article is unverifiable at the very least. The edit history shows that the article started out as a bio of Thoresby and was progressively replaced by nonsense. • Gene93k (talk) 15:44, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. Shoessss |  Chat  18:12, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Before deleting this please allow me to e-mail a link to the article to a colleague who teaches ballet at Barnard College and The New School and who is an expert pointe shoe fitter:
    • The portion about the ballet shoes just might be true though the date is very early.
    • The absence of Google hits doesn't necessarily prove much in the case of people who predate the WWW and who toiled in obscure fields (and pointe shoes are obscure except to those who wear them.)
    • As The Fat Man Who Never Came Back writes, it may not be a hoax, it may be just odd, and if being odd were the criterion for deletion of articles from Wikipedia more than half of all articles would have to go.
    • But the bit about Coco Pops does make one suspicious. Robert Greer (talk) 22:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
      • Hoax:
        • Though I have not yet heard back from Professor Carpenter, I pronounce this a hoax derived from the article for Ralph Thoresby.
        • Go to the history for Hugh Chippingford-Watson and compare the earliest version with the article for Ralph Thoresby.
        • The sixth revision includes the name of his wife, Anne-Marie Dufresne, the purported ballerina.
        • There are a number of living Anne-Marie Dufresnes but none that I can find in any dance reference.
        • If one clicks on Compare selected revision and toggles through the revisions via newer its true nature becomes apparent.
Robert Greer (talk) 23:39, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as hoax. House elf named Dolby (I deleted that as nonsense)? Yeah, right. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 23:11, 30 December 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.