Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trevor Engle

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The result was speedy delete as blatant hoax, per CSD G3/WP:SNOWBALL -- The Anome (talk) 11:02, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Trevor Engle

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Found this article while looking at the unreferenced BLP list and decided to add some cites to it. However, the Pro Football Reference database had no listing for this player, which alarmed me. Some detective work revealed that this page duplicates information from Trevor Pryce, with a different (incorrect) last name thrown in. I searched for Trevor Engle on Bing and Google News, and found no indication that this is an alternate name Pryce goes by, so changing it to a redirect isn't a good option. WP:CSD only allows speedy deletion for recently created duplicate articles (not from 3 years ago), so I'm bringing it here. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 20:41, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: This is the only other contribution from the article's creator, User:Tengle. That name rings a bell, doesn't it? This might be a speedy candidate as a hoax. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 20:51, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. —Giants2008 (27 and counting) 20:41, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Athletes-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:57, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as a hoax. A pro bowl player with zero news coverage? I don't think so. -- Whpq (talk) 22:04, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I'm not ready to call it a hoax, but without reliable sources it doesn't matter. No source, no article.--Paul McDonald (talk) 22:50, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - As the nominator pointed out, the material was copied from the Trevor Pryce article, including his draft position. Only one person gets to occupy a draft position so they can't both have been drafted 28th in the 1997 NFL draft. -- Whpq (talk) 00:56, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment wouldn't bug me to change this to a speedy delete for all reasons listed above.--Paul McDonald (talk) 04:49, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Delete CSD G3 - Hoax. Article created [1] as direct cut paste of text and name change from Trevor Pryce revision 02:03, 10 February 2007 [2].

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