Talk:Andrew Carlssin

This page was proposed for deletion by DavidWBrooks (talk · contribs) on 25 July 2009.
It was contested by Cnilep (talk · contribs) on 26 July 2009 with the comment:
Seems to meet general notability guidelines; see Talk:Andrew Carlssin

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I added the basics for this article, but could use some major help finalizing it. Please help with edits. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cteckerman (talk • contribs).

This might have notability problems because it originates from Weekly World News. Anomo 01:43, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok this article is about a HOAX, of course it has "notability problems". Cteckerman (talk) 08:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The issue is whether it's a notable hoax. Wikipedia has a category for hoaxes and a List of hoaxes. For now, I've put it in both. I personally believe it's a notable enough hoax to be included given some of the other inclusions and that quite a few people I know heard about it at the time (subjective I know but so is the whole concept of notability). Yay unto the Chicken 01:41, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion[edit]

I have proposed that this article be deleted, since it is about a minor, uninteresting hoax from years ago and has drawn virtually no edits in many years. Actually, it's not even a hoax, it's just one Weekly World News article. We don't need to write articles about WWN articles. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 17:42, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The hoax is apparently described in the book Pedestrian Safety Expert Gets Hit by Bus (according to the article). It is also described at snopes.com and in The Edinburgh Evening News ("Anyone Can Be Fooler of the World," 4 April 2003). This seems to meet the general notability guidelines without appeal to the primary sources in Weekly World News or Yahoo. Google News archives also show 21 news sources, though not all are written in English. Cnilep (talk) 14:32, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]