Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Craun

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 Speedy delete as a hoax. Robdurbar 00:51, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Craun

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I can find no evidence that this man ever existed, or that anything contained herein is true. Bill Oaf 07:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

In short, google yields up a number of results that have no relation to anything written here. There is an obituary for a Robert Craun who died this year, but the birthdate is too late. There is another Robert Craun who died in 1987, with no info. It's quite possible that everything here is true, but the article has been tagged as needing sources for a while and has seen no verification attempts. Bill Oaf 07:58, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete No references, no specific ghits, not even a note as to rank or units served with, authored by a single purpose account. There's been a spate of this kind of thing, see Timothy M. Williams. These kind of fake articles are offensive and should be made into smoking, salted Wikicraters. Tubezone 08:10, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy delete Blatant hoax. Should have been speedied to begin with really. MartinDK 08:45, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Speeedy delete could be an attack page. SkierRMH 08:48, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
  • CommentHow could it be an attack page?Edison 17:20, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy delete as hoax. So tagged. MER-C 10:43, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete If he really lived the career described, he was pretty stealthy: No entry in the Social Security Death Index, no WW2 Draft Registration Card, no WW2 enlistment record. There are census records and death records for men of that name but with the wrong death decades or implausble birth years. It is up to the creator of the article to document the facts, since maybe somehow he slipped between the cracks of record keeping or the original records were lost. Every bio article needs a source. Edison 17:20, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Edison. --Charlene 20:42, 17 November 2006 (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.