Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Breast Touching Festival of China

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Snow close. All of the hallmarks of this being a hoax are there. If anyone can find any evidence that comes up before 2011, we can always WP:REFUND this and re-create it with that additional source. Otherwise this looks to be a pretty clear hoax. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:23, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Breast Touching Festival of China[edit]

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

This article was raised as a possible hoax by User:Amphicoelias on the Village Pump [1]. I certainly don't think that it was deliberatly created as a hoax, but in digging it seems all of the sources track back to a Daily Chilli article [2]. The Daily Chilli isn't exactly a reliable source on Chinese culture. :) One of the sources, China Daily, has an official stating that the rumoured festival isn't true, I can't find any meaningful hits on Google Scholar or Google Books, and I've yet to find a source for this 1500 year old tradition that predates the Daily Chilli article in 2011. So I'm inclined to call it as a minor internet hoax that found its way into Wikipedia. - Bilby (talk) 13:42, 29 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:GNG: lack of significant coverage in independent, reliable sources. Qwfp (talk) 20:56, 29 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I agree that this looks like an internet hoax that got mistaken for a real event. I haven't found any reliable sources other than the Daily Chilli article either. Novusuna ^talk 21:09, 29 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails GNG.LM2000 (talk) 02:37, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, pretty clear WP:HOAX as far as I can see. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 04:03, 30 December 2013 (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.