Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ethan Woodward

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The result was Delete. Eluchil404 (talk) 03:12, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ethan Woodward

Probable hoax article created one and half years ago. Nothing in this article checks out. The name has only 92 Google hits, many of them based on the Wikipedia article. The closest outside hit is for the relatively unknown jazz band the Ethan Woodward Trio on MySpace, formed in 2007 (my guess for the probable article source).

There are zero web references to either album "Hallejulah, Pa! I'm a Yakoo-Zakoo!" or "That's no Fish Story, Staci". Searches on his attributed "The Atomic Musician" moniker don't turn up a Woodward association. From his leaving home at age 14 to join the civil rights movement, to his long-lost parents descended from royalty being killed in a tractor accident, the entire article reads as one extended joke with no successful searches on the highlights. The article was created by an editor who has been warned about posting hoax articles and has as his only other nondeleted edit a joke/vandalism change to 2009; all content additions since then have come from IP addresses. At a minimum, the article completely fails WP:V. Michael Devore (talk) 23:21, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Atomic Musician? 'tis a hoax, methinks. Delete per nom. X Marx the Spot (talk) 23:49, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete "some have speculated that Ethan's unique "jazz skillz" can be attributed to the immense amounts of radioactive fallout he might have been exposed to". That comment reinforces my belief, based on the fact that I have found no credible sources on an Ethan Woodward of 80s jazz fame, that this article is a hoax. JEdgarFreeman (talk) 00:24, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong delete as hoax. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a bloody duck! ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 02:37, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Possibly even an Atomic Duck. X Marx the Spot (talk) 02:40, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh! I did not think of that... could be second cousin to Howard the Duck. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 01:55, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Good call by the nom. And I am not going to make any wisequacking duck references...oh, never mind. Ecoleetage (talk) 02:49, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki to Uncyclopedia. It's a hoax, and the fact that its survived for so long without detection is remarkable. Nerdluck34 (talk) 06:40, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I took your suggestion. :) Regards. FangedFaerie (Talk | Edits) 02:27, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete hoax article or not it obviously fails the verifiability and notability policies. Speedy as vandalism if an actual hoax. Jasynnash2 (talk) 08:37, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as hoax. Edward321 (talk) 23:15, 23 September 2008 (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.