Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walligal

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 01:04, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Walligal[edit]

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Procedural nomination. This was nominated for speedy deletion by User:Nishidani with the following rationale:

"Walligal strikes me as a hoax. Despite the link, it is unsourced. No such name exists in Norman Tindale's exhaustive list of Australian aboriginal tribes, and google books fails to turn up even one example. It is obviously based on the Chinese character John, a stockman in Joseph Furphy's Such is Life who says 'Walligal Alp' (meaning 'Warrigal Alf') (Lloyd O'Neill publishers, Melbourne 1970 p.190). Perhaps the hoaxer wasn't even thinking of that, but of his dialect where the word wally means a dumbo prone to errors, who however can 'gull' (gal) people, making them out to be dupes." -- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 20:38, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 20:58, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This article was originally started in December 2009 using text added to a stub template by an IP editor. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:IndigenousAustralia-stub&diff=329643764&oldid=329642288 --NSH001 (talk) 21:51, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I could not find any non mirror entry anywhere. Only mention is as per book above. The closest I could find was a reference to Walligal Lake "Abos", which just happens to be just south of Sydney (the reference that is, I could not find the lake), and there was only one out of 0.5G digitised historical and current records. Looks like a hoax or mistaken extrapolation of the book above. Aoziwe (talk) 12:43, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: that sounds like Wallaga Lake, which is an aboriginal community, but well south of Sydney.--Grahame (talk) 01:39, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I did think of that, but could not tie it together. (FYI ref here) There are also many references to various warrigal all over the place . . ? Aoziwe (talk) 11:28, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:34, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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