Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ivan Sidorenko

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The result of the debate was delete. Babajobu 04:44, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ivan Sidorenko

Hate to nominate these articles, but the possibility of furthering misinformation is too great.
There's no references for him except the website snipercentral which says he killed 500 Germans (which would make him one of the best snipers in history), and then a bunch of googlehits of people copy/pasting the website's list to their gaming messageboards, and I can't help but notice this messageboard has somebody named Ivan.Sidorenko@snipercentral.ru so it's entirely possible that he edited himself into the list as a joke. Sherurcij ^{(talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject)} 05:04, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Unless the article can be verified it is highly suspect. What proof exists of this incredible success rate? If it is available then it should be linked to or referenced.  (aeropagitica)  07:13, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Quite a few times articles are sourced even worse but this article is empty and thus of no use. Btw, similar "records" were (reliably) recorded during WWII. One example was a Finnish snipper during Winter war (he had it easy because Soviet Army lacked winter camouflage). Pavel Vozenilek 21:25, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete because the most successful Soviet sniper during WWII was Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who killed 309 Germans. I see that the creator of this article also created a link to it on the Pavlichenko page. ergot 23:09, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as above.Blnguyen 02:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete unverifiable. Stifle 13:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

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