Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zack Vank

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The result was speedy delete as admitted prank. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:55, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zack Vank

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An elaborate hoax, but a hoax nonetheless. Venk is not mentioned in any of the articles listed as source. The phrase "Zack Venk" gets zero Google hits. Djrobgordon 04:32, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete Double checked. And go with per nom. Citicat 05:10, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, definitely a hoax. I googled "a surrealist with a bat" (supposedly Rick Reilly called him that), and came up with 2 hits -- Wikipedia, and this blog. The November 18 entry is a huge chat log, where they seem to be talking about making up a "Zack Vank" character and putting him on Wikipedia. The November 2 entry talks more about the hoax (aside: based on some of what I read there, I'm going to check "what links here" for things that need to be removed). This quote from the blog pretty much sums it up:

At this point, some of the Wikipedia staff get suspicious and propose that the article be deleted because "subject appears to be non-existant." You think? This of course begs the question why this is STILL up on Wikipedia, even though it's been almost two months since the dogs at Wiki started suspiciously sniffing around. This is where we should really start tipping our hats to the creators of Zack Vank. Realizing that their fun was going to be short-lived if all they did was provide unsubstantiated information and start sexual orientation rumors, they created an external link to the high school Zack Vank supposedly went to, the Redwood High School previously mentioned at the end of my first post about him. Not only did they do that, they created a little profile for him there so that if anyone on Wikipedia got suspicious, they could click on the link and see: [made up quote] Dave6 ^talk 09:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment Zack Vank supposedly wrote a book; I put its article up for deletion as well at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Minnesota Malt. Dave6 ^talk 09:46, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete: I've also added a prod tag to Dooney which was created by the same author (who will be indefblocked unless one of these three articles proves to have some validity). —Wknight94 (talk) 12:06, 21 February 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.