Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Conservative News Agency of New York

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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 delete. A WP:SNOW delete. JBW (talk) 15:34, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Conservative News Agency of New York[edit]

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I am now confident that this article is a hoax, and part of a series of hoaxes at that.

  • blastingnews.com has been associated with several of the other hoaxes in the series (Christian Church International and Arnulf Seminary of Theology), so I have serious doubts about their reliability.
  • The only other sources the article has are three books. Two of these (Shrivastava and Czarniawska-Joerges) are available on Google Books; neither of them contain "Conservative News Agency of New York" or "CNA-NY" at all. Those falsified references were both present in the first revision of the article, not the addition of some later hoaxer.
  • Doing a web search failed to turn up any evidence of this media outlet that doesn't trace back to Wikipedia. If they have a website, I can't find it. This would be, to put it mildly, unusual for a media outlet in 2021.
  • This article was significantly expanded by Klaus Bells, who created a number of other hoaxes.

As with the last few, any admin convinced by the above evidence could close this as a G3; I opened this AfD mainly to record evidence in an easy-to-find place. Also note that since this article lasted more than four years, it probably merits an entry on WP:HOAXLIST when deleted. Vahurzpu (talk) 03:18, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. Vahurzpu (talk) 03:18, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Conservatism-related deletion discussions. Vahurzpu (talk) 03:18, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. Vahurzpu (talk) 03:18, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy delete as a hoax. Good find! {{u|Sdkb}}talk 03:21, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy delete. This article about an organization supposedly founded in 2007 purports to cite a claim about it to a book published in 1984. Phony citations are always a bad sign for a Wikipedia article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:26, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy delete as a hoax. Mccapra (talk) 04:32, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy delete - get rid of this hoax as soon as possible Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 06:42, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy delete per nom. Tagged article as WP:G3. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 12:23, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy delete A bigger hoax than the claims that the 2020 election was rigged against Trump. Should far-righters get back to conspiracy theories about libcuck elites? 👨x🐱 (talk) 14:47, 8 July 2021 (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.