Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Memphis Improvisational Theatre

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. - Mailer Diablo 08:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Memphis Improvisational Theatre

Memphis Improvisational Theatre (discussion|history|protect|delete|undelete|logs|links)

I stumbled on this one when seeing accusations on vandalism against this article. The "vandals" have been saying that no such organization actually exists and no performances have ever been given. Web searches find a lot of references, but every single one (their website, freewebs, myspace, forums, etc.) seems to have been written by the same person, the presumed head of this organization and author of this article, who has also removed questions or criticisms from the Talk page. In other words, massive Astroturfing. Either it doesn't exist at all, or it's a startup that hasn't done anything yet, or it's so far below the radar no real sources have reported on it. Clearly fails WP:V. No Reliable Sources, and Not Notable if, in fact, it exists at all. Fan-1967 19:29, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

• Note There are comments on this issue on this AFD's Talk page. Fan-1967 21:43, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Fails Wikipedia:Notability (comedy). --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 09:32, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete Per WP:ENC - speedy and salt. Have whomever get an article in the paper and we'll get back to them. JBKramer 16:24, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. No phone listing for Memphis Improvisational Theatre at Yellowpages.com or at Superpages.com. No Ghits at commercialappeal.com , the local newspaper. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 01:21, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete: Needs reliable sources, and until then, it is not notable. Per comments above. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 03:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination. Astroturf comment seems appropriate. MikeWazowski 05:06, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per... oh my god, per TT! DELETE PER TT! -- Kicking222 14:25, 15 November 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.