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The result was delete. PeaceNT 00:33, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Quatern Island[edit]

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An extensive speedy-deletion reason was added to this article which I reproduce in full below. Hoaxes are never speediable because i) we're poor on the whole at identifying them at a glance and ii) sometimes the hoax itself is notable in someway. Herewith the tagger's original rationale:

This was a hoax article placed in 2004 by students studying Quaternary Science at the Univ. of Edinburgh from an anon. IP address at that school. There is no Quatern Is. There is no island at all in the (too-deep) waters 25 miles off of the Bangladesh-India coast or, in fact, anywhere near this location (10-100 miles) off the coast. The original hoax article laughingly placed the island in the "Pacific Ocean", "contested between India and Pakistan" (this is nowhere near the Pacific), "off SE India" (nowhere near Pakistan), as a haven for geese in the summer (Geese occur mostly or entirely only in winter in this area) with a bogus wildlife research center present. Subsequent anon. IP addresses added non-existant-Shell oil drilling and a hoax ecotourism plan. Other than WP mirror site hits (up to 200+ by now!), there is no occurence of a Quatern Is. in any internet site nor any published atlas, map, or book. It simply does not exist. I removed the link to this page from WP's List of Disputed Territories.....DLinth, professional geographer/cartographer for past 30 years. (Well-meaning WP editors have tried to make sense of this hoax article since 2004, making well-intentioned guesses at fixing the most obvious errors. In the fall of 2004, a Quaternary Science workshop was organized at the Univ. of Edinburgh, providing the motivation for this hoax "Quatern Is." ..http://rock.geosociety.org/qgg/Newsletter%20Spring%2004.pdf) , by User:DLinth

Splash - tk 21:52, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Google Earth shows no islands 25 miles off the coast of Bangladesh. Nothing on Google other than WP clones. CIA factbook lists no such island as disputed territory between Bangladesh and India. — BillC ^talk 22:47, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per BillC, and send this to WP:BAD under the "Longest Standing Hoax" section. T (Formerly Known as FireSpike) 00:07, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. I would have said keep since geographical features are notable, but the problem is no other Google Hits other WP and Answers.com (which is virtually a copy and paste from WP) has a page for that, so it looks like a hoax here.JForget 00:25, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete this puerile hoax. Bigdaddy1981 00:33, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per User:DLinth and BillC and per my own failure to find anything like this on Multimap - obvious hoax Iain99 11:52, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Appears a hoax. --Oakshade 17:09, 14 August 2007 (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.