Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nikolai Gudkov

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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. - Mailer Diablo 13:10, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nikolai Gudkov

This is a hoax story from Weekly World News presented as fact, so should be deleted. There is a copy of the WWN story on the web at http://www.subgenius.com/subg-digest/v0/0006.html Peter Ballard 03:27, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete, NN news hoax. Oddly, this was discussed in a book (as a WWN article, though, dismissed as at the least exaggerated), Morality and Machines: perspectives on computer ethics by Stacey L. Edgar.[1] I don't think that's enough to hang an article on, though. --Dhartung | Talk 05:15, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, non-notable hoax. Amusingly enough, there appear to be a few real people by the same name; a search in Russian gets about 1k hits on the name, including some for a minister of the press or something or other who might be notable (can't really tell, my Russian sucks). [2] cab 07:37, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment Spokesman for the Ministry of Natural Resources, who is often quoted in stories about the oil industry in Russia, but I doubt he's actually been the topic of an article. Russian results, btw. There's also a Major-General (non-notable) and a martial artist (I wouldn't rule him out notability-wise). No real chess champions, though! --Dhartung | Talk 20:33, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Not notable material, would deserve a reference in a hoax listing.DDB 08:52, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong delete as a hoax. Ten Pound Hammer • (((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps))) 17:04, 22 May 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.