Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magnums

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The result was delete per WP:SNOW. No reason to keep waiting. Mangojuice^talk 20:00, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Magnums

Probable hoax. The screenshot included as a source for this article, which purports to be of a cnn.com article about this topic, appears to me to have been photoshopped. Unless cnn.com filled their article with spelling and grammar mistakes. Also, I can't find any evidence of the existence of this street gang or its supposed boss in a google search, outside of someone's poorly written personal webpage Xyzzyplugh 23:40, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete and redirect to Magnum, can't find such an article after search of www.cnn.com, WP:HOAX. Voice of Treason 00:03, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• The screenshot, uploaded by MatthewSoprano (talk · contribs), clinches it. There's little need to check Google News for articles about Australian gangs (although I did that anyway — there aren't any). This is a hoax. The fact that an uploaded screen shot is given as verification, rather than a simple {{cite news}}, is highly suspect straightaway. But the clincher is that there are no such web pages on CNN by the URLs that can be seen in the screenshots, the URLs in the screenshots don't match the datelines of the purported articles (one is 2006, the other 2005), and the titles of the two screenshots differ and are well below the standard of literacy that one finds at CNN. Delete this, Image:Magnums.jpg, and Image:Themagnums.jpg. Uncle G 00:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I agree about the screen shot most likely being photoshopped. A search through CNN.Com based on the terms I could see in the article and about the "Magnums" itself didn't produce anything to verify it as being legit. 205.157.110.11 00:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect per voice of treasonAdamBiswanger1 00:29, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• That ain't no gang. Delete - now that's a gang. Danny Lilithborne 01:37, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect to Magnum. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 01:49, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete no ascertion of notablility. SynergeticMaggot 01:56, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect as a plural form of Magnum. --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 02:21, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete WP:HOAX, also WP:ORG Alphachimp ^talk 03:03, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Typed address into browser, came up with a "Page not Found" message. Jrcoga! 03:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Grief, can't hoaxsters even be bothered to use a spellchecker these days? Pathetic. — Haeleth Talk 10:29, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete If not hoax then OR - delete either way. Just zis Guy you know? 11:46, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as obvious WP:HOAX. Scorpiondollprincess 13:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete with a vengeance, per above. Doogie2K (talk) 17:14, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy delete per CSD G3 The fake screenshot makes this such an obvious hoax that I am willing to bet that it falls under CSD G3. Jesse Viviano 19:06, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy delete CSD G3 —— Eagle (ask me for help) 19:56, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Fake SS Yeah that screen shot has been photoshoped for sure,but I do believe their is a group called that,I'm from Adelaide and have heard about it in local papers about their graffiti ect..—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Confusio (talk • contribs) 22:05, 20 July 2006 (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.