Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Avatar: The Album

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 was speedy delete after a little pause, because speedy deletions should be done slowly, with a bit of care ;-). Hoaxes are generally only speedy deleted if they are absolutely implausible, with outlandish claims, perhaps directly contradicting common knowledge. Mere lack of Google hits is not sufficient to make the hoax "blatant" or "obvious"; a hoax can by definition never meet the verifiability criteria and will always be deleted sooner or later anyway. The main reason for the caution in deleting suspected hoaxes is that there can easily be false positives where an obscure topic is wrongly labelled a hoax, or where the trouble is merely an incorrect title.

Nonetheless, I have decided to close this discussion and delete the articles because

There appears to be a strong consensus for it.
There have already been several eyes on it.
A real album where the producers paid to use well-known titles such as "Avatar", "Bionicle", or "Artemis Fowl", will almost certainly try to sell the album; and links to commercial websites where the album is sold should be easy to find. The probability of these albums being merely obscure is, for all intents and purposes, zero.

Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:04, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Avatar: The Album

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Does not appear to exist: [1] returns only this Wikipedia article. Nothing about it appears at the articles for the blue-linked contributors. No indication of publisher, etc. Probable hoax. I42 (talk) 21:22, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment It seems to
criteria A9. Same user recreating. Verbally Insane 21:27, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply
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Same problems for Bionicle: The Album [2] and Artemis Fowl: The Album [3] created by the same editor. Adding:

to the nomination. I42 (talk) 21:35, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete and block creator. All blatant hoaxes. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 22:02, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete all.
Rankiri (talk) 22:19, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply
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Speedy delete and then perma-block the creator and the underlying IP address from ever creating an account again. JBsupreme (talk) ✄ ✄ ✄ 23:00, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete. Editor seems to be a vandal carpeting WP with hoax articles.--
talk) 00:12, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply
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Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:01, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete - and article has been tagged as CSD G3. --Darkwind (talk) 08:30, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.