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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 03:55, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dhanunjaya Rao[edit]

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Probably one of the longest standing fraud's in Wikipedia history. A crafty editor (who is a web developer according to this article) copied the contents of Ravi Teja's page and edited it so as to have Ravi Teja's achievements while substituting Ravi Teja's name for his own. He has also slipped in some information about himself in the Early Life Section, while retaining the majority of the lead from the Ravi Teja article. I would have gone for a Speedy Delete, but my experience tells me that this would have been referred to AfD owing to its age. And this fictitious actor will probably find a place in Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia. Jupitus Smart 13:52, 5 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 14:54, 5 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: A vanity article whose content is almost entirely WP:HOAX material. (Repurposing the career of an actor born in 1968 for someone born 20 years later is not a smart move, leading to discrepencies such as an illustrious career before the age of 5.) Leaving aside the attempt at borrowed glory, all we have here is that he went to school and got a job in IT; even that mundanity cannot be validated and searches indicate nothing notable about someone of this name. AllyD (talk) 14:54, 5 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 19:27, 5 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete undoubtedly a vanity article as per nom Burley22 (talk) 18:32, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as per nom Power~enwiki (talk) 07:53, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Hoax article. Ceronomus (talk) 05:55, 16 May 2017 (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.