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Contested PROD. Article is a hoax created by a serial hoaxer IP account that managed to get through AfC with no sources actually verifying the event. The article is copied entirely from
Baseball at the 1912 Summer Olympics, with the only changes being the year and the location - note that it still says that Sweden is the 'host' despite the game apparently being played in Belgium!! Softball didn't feature at the Olympics until 1996. Everything that this article discusses is about a baseball game 8 years prior that already has its own article so this one should just be deleted.
Spiderone(Talk to Spider)16:16, 21 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Comment If this is also true, IP should have vandalism (and likely sockpuppet) case opened, with all their creations like this deleted as matter of course.
Kingsif (
talk)
18:43, 21 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete Obvious hoax, IP has been blocked. I am at a loss as to how this got through AfC, especially since it is an obvious copy of another page. JML1148 (
Talk |
Contribs)
23:03, 21 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete as hoax. Not only the article content but also the sources point towards baseball in 1912, not softball in 1920. /
Julle (
talk)
23:16, 21 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Comment –
BigHaz, are you sure it's a good idea to keep a hoax article active for an entire week when its totally obvious that the article is a hoax? Doesn't this qualify for a speedy
WP:SNOW deletion?
Nythar (
💬-🍀)
23:38, 21 May 2023 (UTC)reply
It may do. My instinct has always been that the outcome of an AfD (speedy or otherwise) is more "final" than a CSD is - there's a reason a declined CSD can be taken to AfD, after all - so the logic of removing the CSD tag was more along the lines of letting AfD do whatever it wants to do, sort of thing.
BigHaz -
Schreit mich an23:41, 21 May 2023 (UTC)reply
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
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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.
Contested PROD. Article is a hoax created by a serial hoaxer IP account that managed to get through AfC with no sources actually verifying the event. The article is copied entirely from
Baseball at the 1912 Summer Olympics, with the only changes being the year and the location - note that it still says that Sweden is the 'host' despite the game apparently being played in Belgium!! Softball didn't feature at the Olympics until 1996. Everything that this article discusses is about a baseball game 8 years prior that already has its own article so this one should just be deleted.
Spiderone(Talk to Spider)16:16, 21 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Comment If this is also true, IP should have vandalism (and likely sockpuppet) case opened, with all their creations like this deleted as matter of course.
Kingsif (
talk)
18:43, 21 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete Obvious hoax, IP has been blocked. I am at a loss as to how this got through AfC, especially since it is an obvious copy of another page. JML1148 (
Talk |
Contribs)
23:03, 21 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete as hoax. Not only the article content but also the sources point towards baseball in 1912, not softball in 1920. /
Julle (
talk)
23:16, 21 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Comment –
BigHaz, are you sure it's a good idea to keep a hoax article active for an entire week when its totally obvious that the article is a hoax? Doesn't this qualify for a speedy
WP:SNOW deletion?
Nythar (
💬-🍀)
23:38, 21 May 2023 (UTC)reply
It may do. My instinct has always been that the outcome of an AfD (speedy or otherwise) is more "final" than a CSD is - there's a reason a declined CSD can be taken to AfD, after all - so the logic of removing the CSD tag was more along the lines of letting AfD do whatever it wants to do, sort of thing.
BigHaz -
Schreit mich an23:41, 21 May 2023 (UTC)reply
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