Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pinkie-Pinkie

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 of the debate was no consensus. - Mailer Diablo 00:52, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Pinkie-Pinkie

I couldn't find anything about this on Google, but for now I'm going to remain neutral and let everyone else try and determine if this is a hoax or if it's real. --Locke Cole 11:40, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as a joke, google has no relevant hits for this term or any variation(pinkie pinkie, pinky-pinky, etc), and the article itself attempts to explain away the lack of information on it by saying most youth have lost touch with this 'urban legend'. Nezu Chiza 16:50, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete; it is the title of a book [1] [2] in French. However, the French Wikipedia does not have an entry on it. [3],. I do not speak French, but it seems that the article is not about the book. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 17:43, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Very dificult to find info on, but not a hoax. The tokoloshe is definitely a real SA myth, and pinki-pinki appears to be a related creature, or an alternate name for it. Can't vouch for the substance of the article, but seems real enough to keep it and ask for expansion and references. Turnstep 17:45, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
  • 1995 sighting from Google Groups
  • 1999 sighting from Google Groups
• Comment. Thank you for pointing out this necessary piece of information. Since this is not an hoax, the article cannot be deleted on this ground. Wikipedia has an article on tokoloshe, but this pinkie-pinkie seems slightly different. As far as things are now, the problem is non-verifiability. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 18:20, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Comment. There is a French book (I think) Le pinkie-pinkie[4], which involves South Africe, but it doesn't seem to be the same thing this article covers. Someone who understands French better than I do might help us here. - Dalbury (talk) 23:47, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

The first bit, describing the pinkie-pinkie, mentions traits out of the tokoloshe article, such as being very short (about a meter tall), turning invisible and having relations with women. The description really bears nothing in common with the article being debated here. The rest of the article describes the plot of the book, which includes a woman from South Africa who is frightened of the tokoloshe. --Le Scoopertemp | [tk] 11:53, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

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.