Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adetola Faminu

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. —Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 02:34, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Adetola Faminu[edit]

Possible hoax. No Ghits [1] which does not mean much but is troubling. In any case unreferenced and probably unverifiable. WP:BIO probably applies as no trace of a reliable source to back it up. Pascal.Tesson 04:00, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as a hoax unless a reliable source emerges, which seems unlikely. --W.marsh 04:06, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - if it were real, and he were notable, don't you think google would dig up 419 spam emails claiming to be from him? ;-) My Alt Account 04:10, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I should note that the talk page of the article has some very very weak evidence that this is perhaps semi-legit. But the whole concept of a Nigerian prince with a lost brother on the US east coast does not make any sense. Pascal.Tesson 04:39, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Hardly any context, hardly any assertion of notability (it should be noted that in many West African cultures, virtually every clan leader is referred to in royal terms, meaning that this is probably one of thousands of Nigerian "princes"), and no verifiable sources. Dylan 04:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete hoaxalicious. Danny Lilithborne 07:05, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete probably a hoax. Blankable as unverified. Robert A.West (Talk) 08:07, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a possible hoax. Even if not a hoax, fails WP:BIO. Th ε Halo ^Θ 11:29, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unverifiable. --MCB 03:56, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Like I said on this article's talk page, there are lots of these Yoruba regional kings, almost all of whom are going to be pretty difficult to verify with Google. That said, without being able to find anything more specific than evidence that a Cheif named Adetola was made a regional king (may or may not be this guy), I really don't see how we're going to be able to verify this one through reliable sources. I hate to have to see a Nigeria-related article go, because we really do suffer from a lack of them (see WP:CSB), but I don't think that we're going to find enough evidence to keep this thing. From the article, we can't even tell where this guy is supposed to be from, and he isn't mentioned in any of the Nigerian national newspapers whose archives I checked. That alone ought to raise questions of notability, since local cheifs frequently make national news. So, regrettably, I find myself having to vote delete on this one. It would be nice if the closing admin would not prevent recreation in case we're able to confirm this person's notabilty (or even existence) later. ergot 14:16, 12 September 2006 (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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.