Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nedwick Island

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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 both; hoaxes. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 10:08, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nedwick Island

Nedwick Island (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Probably a hoax -- the island is claimed to be "newly-named", and it is claimed that "Due to the expedience of the naming of this island, it is not yet registered on the Google search engine." The extremely vague history of the island is said to be tied in with the "Northern Russian Tribal Wars" -- which, despite the claim that it is "a label that contemporary historians use" to refer to alleged historical events, gets no Google hits either. I wonder if that is "due to the expedience of the naming" of these allegedly 150-year-old events. Antaeus Feldspar 04:38, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related page because the two pages share much of the same suspicious information:

Northern russian tribal wars (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
  • Delete as per nom. Darthgriz98 04:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete both A couple of new accounts screwing around (not to BITE) by making up some nonsense. -- Kicking222 04:46, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete both; hoaxes. Unverifiable. I liked the Abominable Snowman bit, that made me laugh at least. Antandrus (talk) 04:47, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete both. At best, these articles are completely unsourced and unverifiable. --Metropolitan90 04:49, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletions. --Slgrandson (page - messages - contribs) 05:16, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete both an island that has "not yet registered on the Google search engine," is home to the Abominable Snowman, whose residents are shy, but like to ride dirt bikes, and is tied to the equally Google-elusive "Northern Russian Tribal Wars"? Are we sure this isn't the subject of a lost Rankin-Bass special? Wavy G 05:16, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete A Google Earth check of the coordinates in the article gives the island of Ostrov Uyedineniya Citicat 05:32, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete both per above. MER-C 05:36, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete both indeed. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 06:56, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - hoax. The author actually gives it away at the end: "The inhabitants of the island are not well known due to the location and their timidity to foreigners. It is known that the kids here like to ride mountain bikes in their free time." Yea, right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CyberAnth (talk • contribs)
  • Delete as a hoax. I would like to make a comment though - it seems that WP:LOCAL is the closest thing we have to notability guidelines for geography articles. There was a page I made several years ago, River Quoich, which may not pass these criteria, but since I am inclusionist I'd advocate keeping it instead of having it torn apart by deletionists...--HisSpaceResearch 18:25, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Strongest Possible Delete Google-Earth shows no land at the stated co-ordinates. Therefore a hoax article. Proven. Kill it.--Anthony.bradbury 18:32, 7 January 2007 (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.