Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eduardo Corrochio

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The result was delete. Consensus is that it's a hoax. Not sure how to add it to the hoax list, but happy to undelete for anyone who wants to move it there...? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 03:59, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Eduardo Corrochio

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Hoax/invented article Andrew Kuchling (talk) 01:27, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article gives no sources, and I've been unable to confirm most of the claims it makes.

Google web search for "Eduardo Corrochio" only finds references that are mirrors or translations of this Wikipedia article. So do searches for his purported teacher "Damiano Tutador".

Two other names in the article, "Henry Rogers" and "Bernie Howard", are more common and harder to search for, but I can't find any indication of tap dancers with those names. [A US Library of Congress article on tap dance doesn't mention any of these names.

The NYT archive doesn't contain either "Eduardo Corrochio" or "Damiano Tutador". "Bernie Howard" appears once, in a 1974 article as having been arrested for computer fraud.

Worldcat.org and Abebooks.com show no copies of Corrochio's claimed autobiography, "Soul of a Tap Dancer".

Google Books only finds references in three recent humour books that might be machine-generated.

If you look at the earliest version of the article, it references an episode of Seinfeld where "Elaine makes up an elaborate story that she once dated a matador from Spain named Eduardo Corrochio."

This article was created in 2005, fairly early in Wikipedia's history. Much editing has been automatic, adding categories or links, but none of these edits have substantially altered the claimed facts from that initial version. That seems unlikely if this is an actual person.

Andrew Kuchling (talk) 01:45, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:10, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Dance-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:10, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Spain-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:10, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: If it is a hoax, it will be the new record-holder for longest-lasting hoax on Wikipedia, surpassing ~~the recently deleted Suez triangle~~ the Warsaw extermination camp hoax by ~~four months~~ 13 months. Gildir (talk) 06:12, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I agree with the nominator's findings. Likely a joke that a Seinfeld fan made up as a spin off of The Good Samaritan (Seinfeld), in particular this scene. Just a shame that it's stuck all of these years as a bio claiming to be that of a real person. If people really want an ATD then maybe redirect to the Seinfeld episode but I would delete the history of this hoax first. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:42, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, ridiculous article. Good catch! Geschichte (talk) 13:40, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - While I'm impressed by how believable this article is, it is almost certainly a hoax that arose from Seinfeld. Good find. Kstern (talk) 15:12, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – in addition to all of the above, the phrase tap dancing first appeared in 1928, so the statement that a "Tap Dancing Championship" occurred in 1890 is singularly implausible. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:38, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per Extraordinary Writ's finding, and add to the top of Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia. Gildir (talk) 03:44, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - Note that Suez triangle has now been deleted from Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia due to lack of consensus that it was a hoax. Gildir (talk) 03:54, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this is obviously fake, but pretty funny. BuySomeApples (talk) 07:40, 25 August 2021 (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.