Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zeke Goldblum

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 as hoax with thanks to User:Trusilver for his work. --Tony Sidaway 18:04, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zeke Goldblum

I first looked at this article a little over a month ago. It seemed to me then that the article had been created, in April, as a campaigning piece against injustice, which of course isn't what encyclopedias are for. No work had been done to turn it into an article, and the only source cited was a website called "Free Zeke".

I proposed its deletion in mid-June but the tag was removed by the creator of the article, with a comment on the talk page. I put a "moresources" tag on it and left it there for the time being.

It's now a month later and only two further edits have been made, both of them by bots altering the categories.

It's time to reassess, possibly cleanup, or possibly delete, this item. As it stands at present I wouldn't call it an encyclopedia article. Rather it's a brief advocacy essay. It remains an orphan article. --Tony Sidaway 12:35, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I've just spent twenty minutes on this. The only other reference on Google is the associated website. It's created via a template, and the e-mail address of the author is burried in it - I was hoping to see if it matched the original wikipedia editors user name in some way, but can't see a link. Google on other aspects of the name (without Zeke etc.) returns nothing about this guy. I'm just very concerned that this is a WP:BLP that can't be cited at all. I assumme that it's not a hoax but the assertations in the article (and website) make me wonder why there's nothing else at all on the net. Fos something so serious there should be a passing reference somewhere. Imm no deletionist but this would seem better of gone until it can be proved this guy exists. Pedro |  Chat  13:09, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I'm going to call this a hoax at this point. I have researched both the article and the website about as extensively as I have the resources for. First, there is absolutely no legitimate source that claims that this murder ever happened. There is no evidence that a Charles "Zeke" Goldblum (or any arrangement or spelling variation thereof) ever murdered George Wilhelm. There is not and never has been a Pennsylvania prosecutor named F. Peter Dixon as the site claims was the prosecutor in the case. Judge Donald Zielger (I also checked Donald Ziegler) does not exist. The three pathologists do exist, but I have not found any connection between them and the alleged case. Trusilver 16:19, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

• Comment Okay, I think we have enough to slam dunk this as a hoax. I went one step further so I wouldn't have any doubt. I got on the phone with a very helpful librarian in the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh who pulled the 1976 microtapes of the Post-Gazette. On Feb. 10-12, there was no mention of the murder in the local news. There was also no obituary for Wilhelm anywhere between Feb. 11-18. I think this is pretty well wrapped up. Trusilver 17:01, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, with kudos to Trusilver for going the extra mile. Propaniac 17:11, 17 July 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.