Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jar'Edo Wens

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The result was Speedied as a blatant and indisputable hoax (not to mention an embarrassment that it lasted this long). My thanks to those who caught it. Newyorkbrad (talk) 08:42, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jar'Edo Wens[edit]

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Article may not assert notability and lacked sources for almost a decade. Not all of the sources on Google seem to be reliable. Snowager-Talk 20:40, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment If it can be reliably documented, it would likely pass WP:N, but my suspicion says this might be a hoax. A few thoughts:

Although numerous Google hits exist, many seem to be irrelevant, unreliable, or derived from this article. This page has existed since May 2005 and seems to have been included in several places (including a novel) since then, but not before.
The name seems to be inconsistent with naming and linguistic conventions in Australia. Significantly, the page List of Australian Aboriginal mythological figures includes this entry with the note that Jar'Edo Wens is an "Arrernte god of earthly knowledge and physical might." It appears, however, that the letters D, J, O, and S are not used in the Arrernte language. (See Omniglot and UCLA.)

This could be the longest-lived hoax on Wikipedia, perhaps derived from the actual English name Jared Owens with punctuation and spacing changed. Food for thought. Calamondin12 (talk) 21:35, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment My intuition is that this is a hoax, as suggested by Calamondin12. Like others here, I couldn't find legitimate sources, and it doesn't help it was apparently created by an IP whose only edit not about Jar'Edo Wens was to add "Yohrmum" to an article about Aboriginal mythology. It would certainly be one of the more bizarrely successful Wikipedia hoaxes, though. Sideways713 (talk) 22:19, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Grahame (talk) 23:06, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Unable to find any decent sources. I'd be very surprised if it wasn't a hoax.Doctorhawkes (talk) 01:45, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the French Wikipedia has the suspected hoax article as well. Snowager-Talk 04:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I too think it's a hoax. Ten years of existence on Wikipedia is enough to confuse Internet search engines. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 07:40, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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