Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frantzen (surname)

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The result was speedy delete. WP:G3 -- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 07:51, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Frantzen (surname)[edit]

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Whatever (little) is known on specific Viking Age families in Scandinavia is easily referenced to reliable secondary sources. None are present in this rather unconvincing hoax. Hegvald (talk) 03:34, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete. It's a real surname (e.g. Björn Frantzén), but everything written here is clearly a 'joke'. Lapislazulia (talk) 03:49, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Good grief, just delete it ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 11:03, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is a biography (almost certainly a hoax, or at least one of someone whose historicity is doubtful) masquerading as a surname article to avoid having to face some citation issues. One book I am in the process of reading is a work on atlantic crossings before Columbus. The author is a strong supporter of the theory St. Brendan or his underlings made the American mainland. He also seems to suggest the same for Phonecians from Carthage in the years before Christ. He is a supporter of the historicity of the supposed Viking runestones in Oklahoma. He seems more skeptical on claims of semitic writings having been found in Pennsylvania. However he makes no mention of any tradition related to Franz coming to North America. Even if there was, linking such to modern usage of the name Frantzen ignores the history of surnames in Scandanavia, and how they were true patronimics until much more recent times than in Iberia, France or Britain, and in the case of Iceland may still be.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:52, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I have tagged it for speedy deletion as a hoax, which it is. The name Frans is not known to have been used in Scandinavia earlier than the mid-15th century, and the spelling Franz is more recent than that. So there was no Franz the viking to begin with, and all the rest is utter nonsense as well - not remotely believable. --bonadea contributions talk 07:47, 19 November 2017 (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.