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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Garden City (album)

: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 speedy delete. per G3 - well speedy not really since it has been opened for the full seven-day period, but anyways it's hoax nevertheless JForget 23:56, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

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This and the related article Letchworth Corset Riot seem to be hoax articles. I was clued into this by the discussion at TT:DYK [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Did_you_know#Letchworth_Corset_Riot here]. This seems to be a sophisticated hoax by Jspearmint, even more so the Garden City article, which is backed up by text inserted at other wiki articles (generally by IPs) and also a user-created last.fm page [http://www.last.fm/music/Ebenezer+Howard here], with three musical tracks (one labelled "Morrisons: Fresh Choice for You"), the British supermarket chain had no actual shops in Howard's lifetime. It's a clever hoax but a hoax nonetheless. Note that there is a phony image in the article, which may require action by Commons. Wehwalt (talk) 13:23, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

  • Delete. Fails WP:V. Deor (talk) 15:34, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Delete as hoax. Electronic music in 1928? I don't think so given it was in its infancy a mere 40 years later. Sam Blacketer (talk) 20:12, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
  • :Comment I've posted on Commons' version of AN/I and in response thereto, [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#User:Jspearmint a debate] has started for the deletion of all of Jspearmint's images. Looks like to me he had at least one more hoax in mind, the painter Spencer Gore.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:08, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
  • ::Comment. The theremin was invented in 1924. The 1920s were actually a high-point of early electronic musc; see page 4 of [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=P2dClS4LdPQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Electronic+music%22&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=theremin&f=false this book]. 85.92.213.195 (talk) 10:30, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Delete Blatant hoax. The creating editor needs to get out more! Jack1956 (talk) 06:49, 7 September 2009 (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.