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 per WP:CSD#G7 (author request) and WP:CSD#G3 (obvious hoax), and a little bit of WP:SNOW.. Jayron 32 15:49, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yaakov Bentolila[edit]

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I can find no evidence that the person described in this article actually exists. The citations to the New York Times and the Jerusalem Post are dead (despite only having been added 5 days ago) and do not exist on the Internet Archive. The third citation to The Independent is about a totally different person with no mention of Yaakov Bentolila. There does seem to be an academic of the same name with articles on the Hebrew and Spanish wikis, but that's clearly a different person from the one described here. I can find no sources pertaining to a Moroccan musician by that name, which is quite strange considering that he was supposedly notable enough to earn obituaries in the New York Times and the Jerusalem Post. On another note, I felt that the writing style of the article was a little "off", so I ran it through an AI writing detector. It came up as 91% likely to be AI generated. I hope this is not a hoax, but all of the evidence seems to be pointing in that direction. Spicy (talk) 14:50, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians, Judaism, and Morocco. Spicy (talk) 14:50, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am the creator of the page and I just want to say I thoroughly messed up on this one, and I too would like the page to be Deleted Gyan Know _{contributions?}
- Gyan.Know, can you explain why and how you created this page? I'm struggling to understand how this could have happened. Spicy (talk) 14:59, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete with extreme prejudice against hoaxes I basically did the same analysis of the article that the nominator did and if I didn't know better I'd say this was a hoax from a vandal, not an editor with a credible history and a few thousand edits. The sources from The New York Times and The Jerusalem Post appear to have been manufactured out of thin air with a deliberate aim of conjuring up an appearance of notability. If this is the best that AI can do, I'm unimpressed with our new robotic overlords. If this is a hoax or a joke, a serious warning is needed, if not a block. Alansohn (talk) 15:45, 29 March 2023 (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.