Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chicken Little Skylab

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Chicken Little Skylab

The result was Speedily deleted as a contribution as well as a hoax by hard-banned user Bambifan101. PMDrive1061 (talk) 06:22, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Notability not proven, no information found to support group existed at all, possible hoax and/or COI SpikeJones (talk) 04:30, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Skylab. They can sort it out, but I found mentions of "chicken little" related to Skylab's reentry and this source [1] discusses it a bit a little more than halfway down the page stating "In Washington, two computer specialists established a firm called Chicken Little Associates, offering to provide up-tothe-minute estimates of the danger to any specific person, for a fee. With the implication that NASA's predictions were unreliable, Chicken Little drew publicity-especially abroad. Then, just a month before reentry, a group from the Brookline (Mass.) Psychoenergetics Institute attempted to increase Skylab's altitude by telekinesis. They staged a "coordinated meditation" session in several eastern states, but produced no effect detectable on NORAD's radars.[23]" ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:24, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I remember the frequent references to Chicken Little during the runup to Skylab's demise, and if one does a Book search for "Chicken Little Associates" there are some sources. These same sources say to me that this article should be moved to Chicken Little Associates, and then merged to Skylab, and Chicken Little Skylab should then be deleted. I don't buy the grandiose conclusions of this article. Abductive (talk) 09:00, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No, the group itself isn't a hoax [2], but there were so many T-shirts and buttons and jokes at the time that Skylab was falling apart, the Chicken Little Society and Chicken Little Associates were part of a fad. It was a natural, really-- "The Skylab is falling!" and "The sky is falling!" -- and not really notable. Even at that, I find zero to support the claim by the "Daily Kos" website that a "chicken little skylab" was responsible for making the public aware that Skylab was falling. A blog that cites a source as "Washington Post, 1979" can't be taken seriously. In fact, a blog that calls the Post the "WaPo" can't be taken seriously. I'll believe it if I read it in Newsweek. 15:48, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
Merge to skylab. Its fringy at best and doesn't warrant its own article.--RadioFan (talk) 16:07, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
CSD G5 - creation by banned sockpuppet (User:Bambifan101) and likely hoax/BS. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 00:46, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy deleted per AnmaFinotera's concern. This was in fact created by a hard-banned user. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 06:09, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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