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.
Unable to produce any references. Possibly a hoax. shirulashem(talk) 01:24, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete--that high-school kid weighs 400 pounds? Maybe his week and a half on Wikipedia will get him a date, but that's it. Hoax. Drmies (talk) 02:09, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete if possible, or delete as a second choice. This article has eight "references" and only one of them mentions the subject. --Metropolitan90(talk) 04:41, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Good question. I asked myself the same question not long after I did it. I guess it's too late now. shirulashem(talk) 01:07, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The sources I saw either were not reliable, or did not mention him at all. I could be wrong, but just saying. Inferno, Lord of Penguins 03:53, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Inferno, you are correct on both points. shirulashem(talk) 14:17, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You listed a website with sports statistics as a reliable source. According to policy, "Reliable sources are credible published materials with a reliable publication process; their authors are generally regarded as trustworthy or authoritative..." Even if that website WAS reliable, it does nothing except to show some of the subject's statistics. All other parts of the article are unsourced completely. shirulashem(talk) 01:16, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
CommentMy point was not that the article is now a masterpiece, and should be featured, but that the subject DOES exist, and is at least marginally notable, so the article should not be deleted. All it needs is some rewriting and sourcing. A lack of sources does not qualify an article about an existent, notable person, to be deleted.Hello, My Name Is SithMAN8 (talk) 16:37, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The fact that there is such a person by this name doesn't prove there should be an article about him if his claims to notability are unverifiable. For example, the article currently claims, in the first sentence, that he is the "Heavyweight Champion in the Northeastern Martial Arts Association". However, "Northeastern Martial Arts Association" garners no Google hits other than Wikipedia and its mirrors. Thus, I'm not even convinced that the association exists, much less that he is the champion. If the verifiability of the article starts falling apart in the first sentence, there isn't much point in waiting for sourcing. --Metropolitan90(talk) 19:45, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - While he might exist, I've seen nothing to suggest he's notable. Pretty much all the claims in the article are obviously BS. --aktsu(t / c) 10:32, 7 February 2009 (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.