Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Captain Underpants and the Brainy Bamboozle of Black Cheetah Man

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. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:35, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Captain Underpants and the Brainy Bamboozle of Black Cheetah Man

No reliable source indicates the author plans to write any such book. —Saric (Talk) 20:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC) (Note that I attempted to delete this article through proposed deletion a couple of days ago, but the prod template was removed by 59.183.8.122 without an edit summary. —Saric (Talk) 20:55, 4 June 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Delete per nom. Also note that the anonymous editor who removed the prod is the article's original author, Fangusu, who is currently blocked and was editing anonymously to evade the block (I will link to my sockpuppet report when I finish it). As such, I do not think the prod removal should have counted as it resulted from illicit editing, but since the AFD has already been started I don't think it's possible to simply revert the illicit edit to see if the prod remains long enough to be deleted without this whole process. --Icarus ^(Hi!) 23:15, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Addendum See Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Fangusu for evidence that the de-prodder was a blocked vandal. Please note that I include this only to support my claim that the prod removal was illicit; any comments about the sockpuppetry allegation should be made at the report, not here in this AfD. I don't know if it matters at this point that the de-prod was invalid as the AFD has already been started. --Icarus ^(Hi!) 23:59, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, but please also list the title at WP:DAFT! Grutness...wha? 02:01, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. But that title is brilliant! Ecoleetage (talk) 02:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete probable hoax. The Captain Underpants series is real (and hilarious!), but this book isn't part of the series as far as I can tell. Plvekamp (talk) 04:17, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This (look at #10) suggests that this title may not have been made up out of wholly whole cloth. And indeed, it sounds too bizarre to be totally fictitious, doesn't it? But that list is clearly outdated, since the subtitle for book 8 is wrong, and the release dates have been pushed back a good deal. What I'm wondering about is whether FrankenFart vs. the Bionic Barf Bunnies from Diarrhea Land ought to be deleted. I'm pretty sure that Pilkey's suggestion that he'll really write it, a picture of the cover which appears on the last page of Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People, was a joke. (The author on the cover is "Evil Dav Pilkey".) But the evidence that he'll write Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Re-Turn of Tippy Tinkletrousers is just the same— a mention on that very same page— and I'm pretty sure that's real. —Saric (Talk) 17:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Good find. I prod'd FrankenFart vs. the Bionic Barf Bunnies from Diarrhea Land. If Pilkey ever does write it, the article can be recreated. Plvekamp (talk) 18:16, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I looked around for evidence that the Tippy Tinkeltrousers one was real, and while I couldn't find much, someone had mentioned on a book selling website's forum that the title was listed as "coming soon" or something similar in the book before it. Not exactly a reliable source, but it's enough at least that I opted to keep an eye on that one instead of adding it to this AfD. If someone else opts to nominate it, it's their call. --Icarus ^(Hi!) 20:18, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Right, the last page of Perilous Plight says Tippy Tinkletrousers is "coming soon". FrankenFart appears under the heading "Also Coming Soon-ish", along with sequels to The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby and The Captain Underpants Cartoon-O-Rama, Book 1: Heroes, Villains, and Super Creeps, which I think are real. —Saric (Talk) 23:47, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There's no question asked. Everything is mentioned above and should be taken care of now since it is obvious everything is fake. -71.183.40.247 (talk) 01:36, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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