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 delete. -- Cirt (talk) 04:53, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a likely hoax. Only online mentions of a highwayman of that name are on Wikipedia mirrors. On Google Books, there are references to a religious author of that name active about 100 years ago. Cullen328 (talk) 07:56, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This was immediately tagged as a possible hoax when it was created nearly five years ago. Perhaps an editor more experienced than I am can explain why it has taken so long to deal with this? Cullen328 (talk)
I only spotted it as an issue recently, oddly enough as a spin-off from some disputes which arose when Dick Turpin was the FA a few days ago. I prodded it but was turned down on the grounds that there was already a contested prod in the history, but stuck to my guns. PatGallacher (talk) 12:22, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I have looked into this further. The person who created this article only ever made 2 edits, the other was to the article's talk page, which also has a hoaxy look to it. The person who contested the prod back in 2006, Karatloz, appears to have a record of controversial editing, and was briefly blocked at one time, but has not made any edits since 2008, and there is no important page where his pages are the latest edit. PatGallacher (talk) 15:27, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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