Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Pleasant

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, hoax. postdlf (talk) 07:40, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Pleasant

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All references turn up error pages, all internal links to his works point to this article. No mention of him on Google. There is a Michael Pleasant on imdb.com, but this seems so be a different person. Suspected hoax.

Delete as a hoax. Searching Google on his name combined with any of the shows mentioned turns up no results other than this page. Rather impressive amount of work for a hoax, but a hoax nonetheless. MikeWazowski (talk) 18:19, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:20, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Delete - I specially liked the touch that both "The Guardian" refs weren't to the newspaper but to an error message at Guardian Life Insurance! Ingenious touch. And the link to "The Daily Telegraph" isn't to the website of "The Telegraph" either, but to a dodgy 'Congratulations you have won...' site. And, yes, all the other links are duff in some way or other. Quite an elaborate hoax, must have taken them hours and hours. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:12, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, Tensemuscle9's other contributions are to just 4 other pages: Jim Kerr (rolled back politely, newbie not bitten), Ian Campbell (folk musician) (rolled back for vandalism), Gary Stevenson - looks like more FAKE LINKS there, ~~will need rolling back~~ (rolled back as hoax); and Paul Young (rolled back for vandalism). Oh dear. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:22, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

speedy delete—G3, if more opinions are even needed. hoax, but artful. none of the articles are real per newsbank, although it turns out that there is in fact an actor by this name active in community theatre in north carolina and still alive as of 2009. the links were nicely done, but they could have been done better. i won't say how in the spirit of wp:beans.— alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 22:16, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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