Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anita Barone and the ASDA Theft Scandal

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 for several reasons. First, this is a wholly unsourced potentially libellous article about a real person, an attack article. Second, seeing how short Anita Barone is, the idea of having a separate article for an individual incident involving that person is just silly. Third, for a current event involving a television actress that purportedly took place 4 days ago, there is zero coverage on BBC News and nothing locatable via Google News. Fourth, the purported news article linked to by the article is bogus.

I warn the editors who are contributing this content that further attempts to reintroduce this content without citing sources will result in loss of editing privileges. We don't want editors who make these sorts of edits. If you are not prepared to cite sources, real sources, you will be shown the door. Uncle G 19:48, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anita Barone and the ASDA Theft Scandal[edit]

While this incident may not meet WP:HOAX criteria, I am unsure of its value to this encyclopedia, hence the reason it's nominated for AFD here. Blangibillock 17:47, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as possible hoax. Nothing on google news regarding this. --NMChico24 17:50, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as hoax and/or for ripping off Harry Potter title constructions. -W guice 18:15, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This is no hoax, it's a slow-burning story, believe me, this should be on CNN with Anjali Rao or Lola Martinez. --Coxingle 18:23, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above from Coxingle. --Oasis9 18:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, notable story, famous person, not a hoax - I know someone who was there at the time. --DaceMaker 18:27, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, this is a real, verifiable incident. Believe me, it is not a hoax, it is a proper encyclopedic article. Even WoW can verify its true. --QanderVerrs 18:29, 5 October 2006 (UTC) — QanderVerrs (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
Speedy delete G10/A7 as attack page w/o sources, per WP:BLP. I've slapped a {{db-attack}} tag on this per WP:BLP; anyone who removes it before an admin reviews it will be reported on WP:AIV and/or WP:ANI. --Aaron 18:52, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
removed - not a dbattack. -QanderVerrs 19:16, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Template removal rverted, QanderVerrs given final warning. Next step is referral to WP:AIV for blocking if it occurs again. WP:BLP is not a "recommendation". --Aaron 19:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Speedy per BLP JBKramer 19:42, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete per above. Hell, even if this was a verifiable incident, it would not need its own article for any reason whatsoever. -- Kicking222 19:45, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, verifiable, real incident no blp violation. --Coxingle 19:46, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete, salt the earth, and block Wildthing61476 19:47, 5 October 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.