Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rainbow fish (mythology)

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The result was delete‎. Snow delete. It is disturbing to find so absolutely blatant and unmistakable a hoax which has persisted for over 17 years without being detected. JBW (talk) 14:42, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Rainbow fish (mythology)

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(Nikhil Surya Dwibhashyam was the one who found the page.)

I've not been able to locate any reference to this supposed myth outside of sources clearly plagiarizing from the article. Thus all material that may be cited is CIRCULAR.

The only given source is a book A guide to Hinduism by an author C. M. Faren, but there exists no information on book nor author, that does not clearly derive from this article. One would further assume that a book with such title would be a general overview, and not mention such an obscure and insignificant myth as this one.

The nail in the coffin here is that the original author of this article, @Frog on a log:, was permanently banned for being a "vandalism-only account", having created at least one other hoax article citing a made-up book.

Examning these things together, this article is clearly a HOAX, and, as it appears, the longest-lasting one discovered. Mårtensås (talk) 12:46, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

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• Delete per nomination. I too couldn't find anything about the currently cited book "A guide to Hinduism" by "C.M.Faren". Wow! Merko (talk) 22:50, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
• Delete Clearly a hoax article by a bad faith author. --TheInsatiableOne (talk) 07:38, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

  Wouldn't be so bad faith if they had written this a few thousand years earlier. Merko (talk) 20:29, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

• Cool, an 18-year-old hoax! Delete, sadly, as it's clearly nonsense. I just feel bad for the guy who created a range of jewellery based on it, and the author of Death Comes for the Trophy Wife... Dāsānudāsa (talk) 10:06, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
• Speedy delete as G3 and A11, I couldn't found any reliable sources so its obviously a hoax. So, the article was obviously made up/coined by the creator of the article itself. I've tagged it for speedy deletion as hoax with the criteria A11 and obviously coined/made up with the criteria A11. Vitaium (talk) 12:57, 9 June 2023 (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.