Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Igor Gnus

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The result was speedy delete. Speedy deleted, hoax Jac16888 ^Talk 17:51, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Igor Gnus[edit]

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Article suspected of being a hoax. Referenced to 'Koran and Bible'. Improbable story of an agent. Nothing relevant on Google. Written in Croatian or Serbian - Croatian works for translation. Peridon (talk) 11:18, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I stopped short of calling it a hoax and speedying it because the Google translation could have just been completely terrible. But based on the translation of the article at a stage where an IP user had added material to it that was in the same vein[1] (which someone reverted for some reason, without explanation, as though the addition was more problematic than the origin content!), he was born in Tel Aviv, but somehow wound up in a German concentration camp even though it also says he moved to Germany after the war. Then there's the business of having killed "10512 thousand" [sic] Nazis and of having gone to 17 high schools (one of which he is now attending at the age of 85) and of being in love with a first-grader 70 years his junior. If someone who can read Croatian confirms that this is nonsense, speedy would be nice. —Largo Plazo (talk) 12:07, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Killing 10512 would be hard enough for a single operator. I don't know what the world record is for personal killing without using aids like weapons of mass destruction or having a large staff to marshal the victims into line. I also find that his professional soccer career ending before the war as being doubtful - as in 1939 he would have been all of 11. Mossad didn't exist until 1949. The story gets worse - our subject is now meeting Hitler three times, killing him in 1945 (when Gnus would have been 17). This is heading rapidly for speedy land. Peridon (talk) 14:16, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

BTW I removed a chunk of poetry as copyvio based on the date of birth before I looked closer at the thing. If this is genuine, that removal is valid. If not, it goes anyway... Peridon (talk) 14:19, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The article is written in so-called 'trimmed latin' Serbian (using only ASCII characters) and it's obviously hoax made out by user. For instance, 'the article' says 'he was born in 1928 etc. and he attended 8 high schools by now and he is currently attending Third Belgrade gymnasium (...) he killed 11000 Nazis in WW2 to get his revange, he is currently in a relationship with 15-year-old girl despite their 70 years difference... Obviously nonsense, vandalism and hoax. I proposed the article for speedy deletion. Alex^{discussion ★} 15:16, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And references are: "kuran i biblija", which means: "Quran and Bible". I think an admin could warn the user and notify him that these kind of jokes aren't funny. Regards. Alex^{discussion ★} 15:22, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

He's stopped editing it - and he's probably got the message now from his user page. Whoever deletes it will probably leave a warning. If they don't, I will. Peridon (talk) 15:56, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy delete. Snow delete. For all the above reasons.--Epeefleche (talk) 17:44, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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