Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Durga Maa Telefilms

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The result was delete all. PhilKnight (talk) 19:03, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Durga Maa Telefilms[edit]

Hoax company. Google hits are all unreliable. Upwards of twenty fake shows on Wikipedia; notice that most start with 'K'. A few of these have unrelated hits, but most have Google hit counts in the single digits. A real soap opera from India, with millions of viewers, will have many more Google hits. The number of editors who only tagged or otherwise unknowingly worked on these hoaxes over the last few months is sad; one even survived an AfD. I suppose they didn't want to be accused of WP:BIAS. I say, now that Google has scanned most everything that has ever been printed; if there are very few Google hits, it doesn't exist. User:MichaelQSchmidt deserves the credit for noticing these. Phlegm Rooster (talk) 09:21, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all as hoaxes.
At least two users are involved in this, Karanbt (talk · contribs) and Kapoorsharan (talk · contribs). I found Kall Kyaa Hoga on a free wiki, sole editor was a user Karanbt, and our article Kall Kyaa Hoga, created here by Kapoorsharan. --Amalthea^Talk 10:19, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I have extended the nomination by all other articles created by Karanbt (talk · contribs), Kapoorsharan (talk · contribs) and Sharan.kapoor (talk · contribs). I did not check each one for a hoax, only followed links to "offical websites" where given, and none of those correlated with the articles. --Amalthea^Talk 10:42, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - I checked them. All hoaxes, thanks. Phlegm Rooster (talk) 10:45, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all and consider blocking the hoaxers as sockpuppets and timewasters. The company's official website is a wiki which has all of 6 members, of whom "karanbt" has made 3,886 posts and the others 1 each. Moreover, the photograph here on the web-site of "Sharan Kapoor" and the one here of "karanbt" are identical, so it seems likely that Karanbt (talk · contribs), Kapoorsharan (talk · contribs) and Sharan.kapoor (talk · contribs) are all the same person; and so, probably, are Shabhash (talk · contribs) who first created the article and Durgamaatelefilms (talk · contribs) who has made one edit. JohnCD (talk) 13:34, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all get this trash off of Wikipedia. JuJube (talk) 15:48, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all as hoaxes. --Plantended (talk) 16:47, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per WP:HOAX. Hoaxes shouldn't be created and be kept here at Wikipedia, and it appears so these are all hoaxes. Google shows basically nothing that is a reliable resource. -- RyRy (talk) 17:20, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete Hoax. Looking for more. Insidious how they were snuck in one by one. The house of cards in now falling. Hope the entire bunch gets a permanent block. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 17:27, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- And you'll absolutely love this. Found User:karanbt over at the wetpaint.com site. He's been creating his frauds over there so as to have "sources" for them here at Wikipedia.... and yes, nearly every imaginary show begins with a "K". Strange. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 18:04, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - There's a reason why they all begin with "K" - he made the first version of his biography by a pretty straight copy-paste from the second paragraph of the (real) Ekta Kapoor (supposedly his sister - twin sister as he copied her birth-date) - and her (real) shows all start with K because she thinks it's lucky. JohnCD (talk) 18:33, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    - Well.... I hope there is some way to keep on eye on this guy as it is almost assured he or his puppets will be back. One does not devote that much time and energy into something and give it up easily, as it this fraud has apparently been a major construct of his for over a year. Almost 4,000 edits over at WetPaint under the User:karanbt name alone. I have no idea of the number here at Wikipedia in his many guises. Is this something checkusers get into at least at this end? Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 18:46, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
There's more; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syed Anwaar Gilani. Phlegm Rooster (talk) 19:41, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Time for a checkuser? Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 22:20, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I checked some of them with friends in sales in these channels. They haven't heard of them. Hoax. ChiragPatnaik (talk) 22:27, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete One hoax to rule them all.... I mean this probably the most hoaxiest hoaxy hoax that i've ever seen. Someone clearly has too much time on their hands. Doc Strange^MailboxLogbook 22:51, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete All as hoaxes. Considering the time and number of users involved in the hoax, recommend Salt as well. Edward321 (talk) 00:24, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all - seriously hoaxes. They may need salt as well due to the time and number of users involved in this hoax. Greg Jones II 18:40, 24 August 2008 (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.