Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Clinger Winker

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 all, g1 nonsense/g3 vandalism. NawlinWiki 20:57, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Clinger Winker

The Clinger Winker (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

This will be a group nomination. An editor, StealBoy (talk · contribs), has apparently created a series of articles that describe programs that exist, but under different names and with changes made to make them look different from the ones they're based on. Another editor had expressed concern with this on the Village Pump/Assistance, and a look over the created pages indicates that none of them are sourced, or if they are, they're to a different film on IMDb. None of them exist, that I can tell; one of them, Ello It's Cheeky, appears to have a character that was part of a comic strip, but there's no indication it actually existed as a television show. A couple of the articles have been redirected already, but these ones don't seem to be likely search terms, so I'd like to bring them here for discussion. Tony Fox (arf!) 03:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages:

Ello It's Cheeky (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Wally (TV Series) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Vampire Duck (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Peter's Pet Dragon (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

• Please clarify. You're saying that these articles are all suspected hoaxes, and should be deleted unless evidence of their existence can be provided? Placeholder account 05:23, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

That would be what I'm saying, yes. There's no references in any of them - or, if there are, they link to a completely different movie or TV show. To assume good faith, I'm leaving open the possibility that the author has a reason behind them. But, essentially, I can't find any proof of any of these existing. I'll note that the author also created The Two Rescue Mice, which has been redirected to The Rescuers, and I redirected The Wind in The Willows, which was describing a nonexistent Walt Disney film. I am, I should note, encouraging deletion. Tony Fox (arf!) 05:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

The Clinger Winker is definately a clone of the british hit childrens show The Clangers (the text is taken directly from The Clanger wiki article, and even has one example of Clangers that was not changed to Clinker Winker) but there is no evidence of it ever having been shown under that name on the BBC - or anywhere else for that matter! I agree that these items should be deleted - or reverted to their original versions prior to this editors involvement, until further proof of their accurance or notability can be secured. List of Wally Turn Into (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) is another spurious entry from this contributor, although where the included table originated from I don't know! Now added to AfD  Lynbarn  (talk) 08:22, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

• Please note that 220.233.238.103 (talk · contribs) would appear to be a second identity for this user. This morning he has removed the AFD notice from Wally (TV Series). (I have restored the notice and left a level 1 warning on the user's talk page).

I am suspicious of ALL the contributions by this editor. Looking at his contributions, most have already been identified as vandalism and reverted by other editors. Most of the remaining 'contributions' relate to the films listed above, where this editor has added wikilinks from other articles.

I strongly recommend deleting the other 'film' articles, which have since been redirected, since these may be misleading to the unwary.

(BTW, I am 'the other editor' mentioned above!) -- EdJogg 09:31, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

220.233.238.101 (talk · contribs) has apparently also been used by this same editor. ...103 is still active, adding spurious info as of about ten minutes ago. regards,  Lynbarn  (talk) 11:07, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

also: 220.233.237.73 (talk · contribs), 220.233.237.69 (talk · contribs), 220.233.237.60 (talk · contribs), and possibly 220.233.237.39 (talk · contribs) might bear looking at - there is a definite pattern...  Lynbarn  (talk) 13:07, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete all as hoaxes, and dumb ones to boot. Propaniac 16:07, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment - the creator of these articles has now been blocked for a month by Pascal.Tesson (talk · contribs) for creating hoax articles and inserting false information.[1]

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.