Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lars Olsen

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The result of the debate was delete -- Curps 20:51, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lars Olsen

This page may be a longstanding hoax.

The original contributing IP 135.214.66.241 (talk • contribs) recently modified it to say that Lars Olsen had undergone transsexual surgery and lives as a woman. No problem, except the article says he died in 1990. [1] Or was that 1938? [2] Or perhaps 1999? [3] Or 1941, as per the original edit? [4]

There is no such comet as "C/1910 Q1", nor is there any comet whose discovery is credited to an "Olsen" or an "Olson". [5]

There were no asteroids discovered by any "L. Olsen" [6]. The only Olsen who discovered asteroids was "H. J. Fogh Olsen". No "Olson" either.

User:Larsie, who did all the year-of-death switches above, exchanged some odd cryptic messages with User:Chrispy around that same time period (late October 2004), mentioning something that shouldn't be public or something that could result in getting kicked off Wikipedia [7] [8].

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-- Curps 21:38, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)


Apparently he lived 120 years. (The first entry had him dying much earlier.) Presumably the Trent Observatory is at the Trent University in Ontario Canada. But that is only 40 years old. There is a notable Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf that was completed in 1825, but he is not listed in the history [9]. — RJH 22:44, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete, could be speedied as stealth vandalism. Wyss 00:44, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The NASA ADS lists a Lisbeth F. Olsen (active 1999-2004), also listed as L. Olsen (1999-2000; same as L. F. Olsen, München and Copenhagen). The only other Olsen listed is a geophysicist L. R. Olsen (one paper, 2003).
The only Trent Observatory I find is now called the East Midlands [Public Health] Observatory. Trent University (http://www.trentu.ca/) does not seem to have an observatory. And Lars Olsen has left no trace there.
Yeah, seems fishy to me too.
Urhixidur 00:59, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
  • Delete Apparent prank; good eye. -- Infrogmation 06:37, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Axl 19:29, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete as soon as possible. --Jyril 22:02, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Very convincing evidence of hoax. Allow re-creation without prejudice if the re-created article, when created, includes both high quality references (print references from authoritative sources) and quickly checked references (authoritative websites). Keep if such references are provide and verified prior to expiration of VfD. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:22, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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