Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Silverton Goatman

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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. Rjd0060 (talk) 19:20, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Silverton Goatman

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The article was previously nominated for deletion by Nuttah (talk · contribs). The creator of the article contested it. However, I see now that this article should be deleted. The poster of the prod considered it a hoax. Basicly, the article appears to have been copied from Lake Worth monster, with a few modifications, including the time, year, and the external links were removed (you might be able to guess why). The book by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huygue, which I currently have borrowed from the library, is not a source for this. That book only discusses the Lake Worth Monster, not this one. A quick google search reveals only 49 ghits. The first one, as you can guess, is the Wikipedia entry. Another one looks like a discussion-type format and cites Wikipedia as one of its sources, another one is a blog and not reliable, another one if a Pdf and vaguely resembles the article but opening it reveals something about sporting activities. The last one for the first page is from a bigfoot research group, but discusses a bigfoot-like creature, not a goat-man like the other sources describe. The other sources on the first page have nothing to do with the article's subject. Unless we can find additional reliable sources, I would consider this a possible hoax by the author (I mean not a documented hoax), and thus should probably be deleted. ~AH1(TCU) 22:30, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete as per nom. Can't find it here [1] or [2], & the bit about locals thinking they have captured him and instead capturing a named teenager seems a giveaway and perhaps identifies the author.--Doug Weller (talk) 05:54, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. Obvious hoax/made-up article. Gandalf61 (talk) 11:08, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. With 5 google hits, including wikipedia and mirrors, this is obviously either a hoax or incredibly non-notable. Yilloslime (t) 05:59, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete No reliable sources to establish notability, and its probably a WP:HOAX--Captain-tucker (talk) 01:47, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, notability is not established and there is a strong possibility that it is entirely made up—certainly some of the details are invented, such as the midget being thrown and the local teenager who was mistakenly captured. Everyking (talk) 08:27, 31 May 2008 (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.