Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Les Jennings

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[edit] Les Jennings

Article about a jazz trumpeter with a "cult following"; looks like it might be fictional:

  • Google turns up nothing, which is surprising for "one of the first people to couple pyrotechnics with live music"
  • The author appears to be a member of a certain troll organization that will not be named.

Can anyone with more knowledge about jazz enlighten us? —tregoweth 00:00, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)

  • Keep. Actually, Google shows 3 or 4 hits. Article needs to be expanded/cleaned up. DCEdwards1966 03:15, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
    • Where? I couldn't find a single relevant hit for "Les Jennings" and jazz, trumpet, or pyrotechnics. Of course, I might not have been using a suitable search; please advise. --jpgordon{gab} 03:53, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Hang on! This is part of that large hoax we had a while ago. Anyone remember the exact name of the fictional group? It was an elaborate one, where a prankster had invented a whole group of unlikely musicians and succeeded in getting it picked up by multiple websites and even online music histories. We ended up having about 8 articles that had been spun out of that. No record of him in All Music, which wouldn't miss an American jazz legend. It does have a Les Jenkins, but absolutely no information on him (not dates, not biography, not anything). Delete as a prank/hoax. Geogre 04:44, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • You're thinking of Toejam Jawallaby. Les Jennings doesn't appear to be part of that (to judge by authorship and lack of cross-links to the TJ universe). Wile E. Heresiarch 04:43, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Thanks. That was the one I was thinking of. I thought he was part of their band, but I guess not. This is just an unverifiable likely hoax, rather than part of a highly successful hoax. Geogre 05:37, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete, research on google shows wikipedia mirrors and different people. —siroχo 06:41, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete this. [[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 09:27, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete, possibly speedy. Not listed in Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music either (though one Terry Jennings was a notable avant-garde jazzman). Samaritan 11:32, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Likely prank from known vandal. No relevant non-WP hits for "Les Jennings" 1904. Niteowlneils 22:07, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: apparent hoax. Wile E. Heresiarch 04:43, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete, hoax. --fvw* 06:10, 2004 Nov 21 (UTC)
  • Delete. --*drew 07:19, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Original author is Lysol, userpage says "You can find me in #GNAA in irc.gnaa.us." 'nuff said. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:40, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)