Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MacHines (surname)

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The result was delete. --Coredesat 08:09, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MacHines (surname)

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Probably a hoax. Basically impossible to google for ("John MacHines", "Ian MacHines", "Mary MacHines" find no relevant hits. No reference to the "MacHines Estate" can be found despite the supposed famousness, and reference as a joke, no less by Stern hardly qualifies as a reliable source. Article as a one-shot abandoned for days by its author despite the {{hoax}} tag. Coren 22:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, nothing encyclopedia-worthy in there. Punkmorten 23:10, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - a source I can check is the London phone book, and there's not a single example of this name "common in the UK and Ireland" — iridescenti (talk to me!) 23:15, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

That certainly helps. I wonder why I didn't think of checking phone listings-- Is there an online directory for BT (for future reference)? Coren 23:43, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Infobel has the phone books of most major countries online - the UK ones are here. In my experience it's awesomely user-unfriendly and crashes at least every other time you use it — iridescenti (talk to me!) 23:55, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Did my own search, found nothing. Someguy1221 22:25, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

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