Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/War on chairs

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 of the debate was snowball delete. This is not an article on some obscure issue. It is a supposed international incident between two major countries. If it cannot be found, it doesn't exist. `'mikka (t) 15:41, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] War on chairs

Article about a trade dispute between Japan and China which although sounds plausible, is unreferenced and I could not find any results when searching on Google. --BrownCow • (how now?) 23:48, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I should also note that the article discusses folding chairs and the image, which comes from the Chair article, is definitely not a folding chair. My guess is that it's a big hoax. --BrownCow • (how now?) 06:54, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

• Weak delete - I'm finding nothing, but I'm searching in English, maybe someone with some language skills might do better... Artw 00:45, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... It seems it was created by the user "WarOnChairs", who has worked exclusively on that page. A bit weird... Artw 00:54, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment He may have made other "contributions" that aren't as apparent anymore. He has created an article called The RubberChickenWithAPulley Law, which is up for speedy deletion. If it gets speedily deleted, I think it shortens his contributions list. —Tokek 12:43, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment I googled "War on chairs" and the only other instance besides Wikipedia I could find was a June 18 post [1] by andyandy on the JREF forums, the same day the article was created on Wikipedia. A separate article by Waronchairs that was speedily deleted today was about JREF forum culture, so putting one and one together, it seems like the War on chairs article was created by andyandy merely for his JREF forum needs. —Tokek 14:26, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete without further referencing soon, very soon.--Nick Y. 01:06, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. No one I've asked here at the office in Tokyo has heard of it. I posted a note about this at Wikipedia talk:Japan-related topics notice board, so maybe we'll get firmer information soon. --Calton | Talk 06:38, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Couldn't find anything searching in Japanese or English. Nobody around my client's office in Tokyo has ever heard of it. --awh (Talk) 07:48, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I searched Asahi Shimbun's Japanese Web site for each of six expressions that could be read "isu no kousen" (the headline the article cites): いすの交戦　椅子の交戦　いすの抗戦　椅子の抗戦　いすの好戦　椅子の好戦. No hits within the Asahi site. A citation would be helpful. Fg2 08:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Where to begin... The topic could be newsworthy if it was true - it would need to be better written. That said, not all news articles are worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. There are already several articles in Wikipedia that already cover the worsening of Japan-Chinese relations in recent years. —Tokek 12:34, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment If Wikipedia adopted a Limbo namespace, this article could be moved to Limbo during the discussion on deletion. Moving an article to Limbo would remove it from the article namespace and prevent search engines from delivering suspicious content while the community decides whether to keep or delete it. For more information, see the discussion on establishing the Limbo namespace. Fg2 11:19, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete `'mikka (t) 15:41, 28 June 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.