Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mexican Hot 100

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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. Ѕandahl 03:49, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mexican Hot 100

Mexican Hot 100 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

Apparent hoax. Compare the initial revision of the article [1] with the Canadian Hot 100 article - basically identical with a few crude changes - and a few missed ones, e.g. the "Mexican Hot 100 will serve as the definitive measure of Canada's most popular songs". References appear fake - translating them with Google's Spanish to English translator shows them to be random pages on Spanish-language sites with no reference to any Hot 100 charts. Pages were created by User:Password16 who has offered no response to questioning about the articles, and who I believe to be serial hoaxer User:Maneisis returned under another account - see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive335#Dubious edits by User:Maneisis for my previous investigations of his long-term hoax edits. Stormie (talk) 03:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Also included in this AfD -
Mexican Hot 100 number-one hits of 2007
Mexican Hot 100 number-one hits of 2008
  • Delete as apparent hoax. Also note that many songs have fictional Mexican Hot 100 chart positions listed; might wanna check into those too. I went through and removed some bogus Mexican Hot 100 positions from a bunch of song articles. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 03:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete; I agree, this is a hoax, but a fairly pervasive one. All Google hits regarding "Mexican Top 100" are to Wikipedia, or to fan sites reporting the position of one of two songs: Britney Spears' Piece of Me or Paris Hilton's Stars Are Blind. However, it is likely that those reports were, themselves, garnered from Wikipedia, as the articles for both songs include the Mexican Top 100 (although in the case of Spears, the Mexican Top 100 reference appears only in the Italian-language Wiki here[2]). For Stars Are Blind, the link was added by User:Magg 608 here[3], but may well be a good faith edit drawing on false information. (Note that they also added a legitimate Mexican chart at the same time). Given that, at any given time, there need to be 100 songs on any Top 100 list, and given that this list was supposedly published weekly since 1998, I find it suspicious that only two songs are mentioned by Google, and that the external link provided to the Top 100 list does not, in fact, lead anywhere resembling a list of any sort. This is definitely a hoax. --Ig8887 (talk) 04:20, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Hats off to Stormie for catching this one, which makes a few (but not enough) substitutions on "Canadian Hot 100". Extremely lame as hoaxes go. If you're no damn good at telling a joke, don't even try. Mandsford (talk) 12:54, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. And I guess I can let Stormie take the credit for discovering this hoax ;) anemone│projectors 13:25, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. No one including myself has ever heard of it and has no reliable sources Vala M (talk) 18:08, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, hoax. - eo (talk) 01:29, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
P.S., the Geoff Mayfield mentioned in the article is the charts manager for Billboard magazine, who publish the Canadian Hot 100. - eo (talk) 01:31, 16 February 2008 (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.