Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samuel Maverick (Ivory Turner)

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The result was delete. --BDD (talk) 18:49, 18 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Samuel Maverick (Ivory Turner)[edit]

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Entirely unsourced biography with a section that relates the topic to several secret societies. Not sure if it's a hoax. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 22:50, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This discussion should also probably include the duplicate page below. Bfigura ^(talk) 23:17, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete As this is unsourced, and google searches don't appear to turn up anything relevant. (There are two previous Samuel Mavericks in early American history that we have articles on, but they have very clearly different birth/death dates). Also, the bit about the illuminati does trip my hoax sensors. (Strong claims requiring strong evidence and all that). I would add that if this closes in delete, the article's creator has done a bit of collateral editing that will need to be reverted or removed. -- Bfigura ^(talk) 01:26, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:36, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment. Not a hoax. Samuel Maverick was a victim of the Boston Massacre. An independent Google search confirms that. I don't know if there's enough to support a stand-alone article. • Gene93k (talk) 00:40, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Yes, a Samuel Maverick was killed in the Boston Massacre; but aside from that single fact, this article appears to be utter balderdash. (Even the profession to which Maverick was apprenticed is given variously in different sources, so the disambiguator in this article's title would make the title inappropriate for an actual article on the man.) I see that Bfigura has prodded another article created by the same account, Turners of Ivory, which seems to be part of the fantasy. Whether or not Maverick merits an article, this one needs to be dynamited. Deor (talk) 09:53, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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