Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Professor Michael Sterling

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The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:53, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Professor Michael Sterling

Seems to be a hoax or prank, or possibly based on a fictional university in a magazine column[1][2][3]. "Birmingham Polytechnic" "Michael Sterling" gets zero hits, as does "University of Poppleton" "Michael Sterling". In fact, "University of Poppleton" alone gets less than 100 displayed hits, and seems to appear often as an placeholder.[4] It was contributed by an anon from a 'shared IP address' that has frequently been the source of vandalism. Niteowlneils 00:20, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete and condemn. There's no "seeming" hoax about it — it's an unashamed hoax. The "Chancellor of Vice" (really Vice-Chancellor), no polytechnics in the UK since 1992, "Institution of Eclectic Engileers" (really Institution of Electrical Engineers) etc...-Splash 01:57, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete ^ditto^ Redwolf24 02:26, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete This is a hoax... Wikilibrarian 02:38, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete Hoax, and even if it wasn't, it's still not notable --mysekurity 04:16, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete hoax etc. Zoso 00:30, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn hoax/contextless fiction. --Etacar11 01:25, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete hoax. JamesBurns 08:03, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as hoax. Hall Monitor 19:19, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Comment - there is a real Michael Sterling, Vice-chancellor of University of Birmingham, chair of the Russell Group [5] - almost certainly notable and in fact appears as a red link in the University of Birmingham article. However, at the very least the article is incorrectly titled and not worth rewriting.--AYArktos 01:00, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
  • True, but his article shouldn't have Professor in the title in any case. --Etacar11 01:02, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

• I concur - hence in my first comment I said the article was incorrectly titled!--AYArktos 01:06, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

• Ooops, my bad, I should read more carefully! :) --Etacar11 01:07, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

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