Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Repives

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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 early close and delete per unanimous consensus by serious editors that this is a hoax. Sandstein 18:15, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Repives

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Delete. Likely hoax as Google shows 21 results for the term "Repives" (and no, I didn't mean "Recipes"). Speedy tag removed several times. ... discospinster talk 00:21, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep and Clean up. The Google search shows a lot of confusion about the thing, so if is real, then Wikipedia should be an ideal source of information on the matter. --ArrEmmDee 00:23, 10 April 2007 (UTC)]]

um my grandmother was seriously killed by one.

just because they're rare doesn't mean they don't exist.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by LionInACar (talk • contribs) 00:25, 10 April 2007 (UTC) — LionInACar (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

    • If you can show us some herpetology data that it is indeed a bona fide snake and not a pokemon, then we have a keeper. A site on raresnakes.tk is not such data. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 02:13, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep and clean up. I've studied this for a while, and yes they ARE real, however they are very rare. I think it would be wise to keep this article.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.117.248.88 (talk) 00:30, 10 April 2007


  • Delete. previous three comments likely sock puppets, another comment from a recent editor of the seviper page. No mention of revipes on any of the search engines or any of the reference books I have. I'm always willing to learn though, find me a reference from a reputable source. SallyBoseman 00:41, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, (edit conflict), per SallyBoseman. --Cremepuff222 (talk, review me!) 00:43, 10 April 2007 (UTC (see below)
  • Comment. I don't take well to being called a sock puppet. --ArrEmmDee 00:43, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • (another edit conflict) Sorry, ArrEmmDee. I did a google search just now [1], and there seems to be some evidence of it being a snake, but most of it is just stuff on Pokemon. I'm just gonna back out from this one, no need to hurt anymore feelings... --Cremepuff222 (talk, review me!) 00:50, 10 April 2007 (UTC)


  • Comment Are you kidding? What is the point of making a fake page about a snake? I for one am not a 'sock puppet'. --75.117.248.88 00:47, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
    • Well, one reason to create a fake page about a snake would be that the creator of the page wanted to attempt to fool the deletion proponents into thinking that this was a real snake and not just somebody's imagination getting overactive. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 03:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - unsourced, fails WP:ATT. If it's a real animal, then there's surely some WP:RS that would support this. --Haemo 01:03, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Evidently it's a hoax. SallyBoseman should find a more effective way of deletion page discussions though, instead of throwing out wild accusations. --ArrEmmDee 01:06, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - Obvious hoax. But either way, if it can't be sourced, we can't have a proper article on it. Danski14(talk) 01:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)


  • Strong delete as hoax. Note that "repives" is simply an anagram of seviper - a pokemon that matches the description almost to the letter at the time of my !vote. Google search turns up that this is probably just another pokemon - I suspect vandalism accordingly and will investigate. Only evidence to existence (above) is a page with little to no content that shows any existence of this as a bona fide snake, reptile, or pretty much anything that exists outside of the imaginations of some editors. Anecdotal evidence (something about one killing his grandmother) is not concrete. Conclusion: the article is complete balls that was made up in school one day. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 01:41, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as unreferenced and likely hoax. —Resurgent insurgent 2007-04-10 02:11Z
  • Delete Hoax. To 75.117.248.88 with the "source" above. Thanks for pointing out that saucy little site. It was created today, has a nice message of support from David Hayter, a voice over actor (featured in the Repives article and is known as "Solid or Naked Snake"), who provided the voice for Solid Snake. But the best thing was the fact that the bit on the "Tasmanian Tiger Snake" at www.raresnakes.tk/ was copied from Parks and Wildlife Services - Tasmania and it appeared almost word for word as a copyvio in Notechis. The "Louisiana Pine Snake" is copied from United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service. It's been a while since I saw a fake web site created to try and back up a bunch of nonsense like this. 03:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)CambridgeBayWeather (Talk)
    • Comment Why did you even bother to look up the sources on those? --ArrEmmDee 04:14, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
      • Four words: drive the point home. =^_^= --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 04:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
        • Partly but it's also WP:AGF. There are a lot of things in the world that I know nothing about and the few minutes it takes to check that link out might pay off. And guess what, it did, I removed a copyright violation from Wikipedia. People who go to all the work of creating a hoax like this need to have the point driven home that we know it's a hoax. If you don't they just will not stop with their comments about how real it is and follow up with other actions to prove it (WP:BEANS). CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:40, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
          • Wow, man. That's freakin' sad. Makin' a website just to back up some BS??? Wow, people can really be sad sometimes. ♣ Klptyzm Chat wit' me § Contributions ♣ 18:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong delete If this was a real snake, however rare it might be, it would be on google all over the place. (edit following) Re-reading the article, it lists David Hayter as a Herpetologist with a nickname of "Solid Snake". In reality David Hayter is a voice actor who lends his voice to the character Solid Snake in the Metal Gear (series). Absolutely 100% hoax, and reaffirm VERY Strong delete JAMDAWG 12:22, 10 April 2007 (UTC) talk with me·changes
  • Strong Keep, but perhaps clarify and cite more references. --Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? 16:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
    Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (talk · contribs) just opined "strong keep" in 27 AFD discussions over a period of 35 minutes, several times with clearly disruptive rationales. Uncle G 16:48, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as hoax. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 16:49, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete a hoax article. Acalamari 17:00, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete, hoax. Repives is Seviper backwards, this is just a made-up article by some Pokemon fans. -Seinfreak37 17:02, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Ssssss-trongest Po-Sssssss-ible Delete for being utter WP:Complete Bollocks. Actually, there was an afd recently for a hoax that had an external site backing it up see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Hurley-Pugh Eddie.willers
  • Delete as likely hoax per Sumnjim. --ElKevbo 21:16, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep It exists. You just like stroking your e-peens by destroying the Wiki for a perfectly real animal. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.189.42.17 (talk) 22:05, 10 April 2007 (UTC).
    • So where are the herpetological studies on this snake? Where are the photos or specimens? Why has nothing been shown in the way of pictures other than the image of the seviper pokemon? Where is your evidence that this is real? --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 22:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete and Salt. I'm really trying to assume good faith, I really am, but I'm beginning to wonder if someone's just got a wee bit too much invested in pulling one over on us. WP:POINT comes to mind, I'm afraid to say. --Charlene 02:53, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete Basically, bullshit. ♣ Klptyzm Chat wit' me § Contributions ♣ 03:51, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per the impressive research by CambridgeBayWeather. Of course, if the guys behind this keep at it, they might be able to turn it into a notable Internet hoax, in which case, it would deserve an article as a hoax. But it's not a notable hoax yet, and, thanks to vigilant people like CambridgeBayWeather, they'll have to make it notable without the aid of Wikipedia. Xtifr tälk 07:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep and Clean Up The rare creature exists, but there isn't much info on it as it is rare. There are no pictures of it as of yet because they're so hard to capture in film. Saying it doesn't exist because you haven't seen one is like saying a dog doesn't exist because you've never seen one. Insolent and naive.
  • Speedy Delete Obvious hoax with subtle troll memes and an earthy finish. --Afed 18:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Utter nonsense. Also, the above comment by Afed is just about the funniest delete comment I have ever read. :) IrishGuy talk 19:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
    • His edit summary on Seviper was priceless, too. —Cryptic 19:20, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
      • Oh, that's nothing, Cryptic, some of those flames in the talk page for this one are putting a smile on my face. =^_^= --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 19:34, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
        • You handle yourself quite poorly on the talk page, falling into the same manner of behavior in which these alleged trolls are. --ArrEmmDee 20:15, 11 April 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.