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The result was Speedy Delete as a hoax (WP:G3). — CactusWriter ^(talk) 01:54, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Trent Swords[edit]

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Non-notable athlete. The article was originally written about someone who would have been a significant rugby union and rugby league player, had any of his statistics been verifiable, but they appear to have been made up from whole cloth. (The source given initially by the author was actually a link to the statistics of another player.) As it stands now, the article's only verifiable fact is that a player named Trent Swords once played college football at Augustana College. It may, or may not, be the same Swords as intended in the original article. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 19:29, 5 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete as no assertion of notability and / or as a hoax. The alleged claim of notability (unreferenced) is that he played rugby league and rugby union internationally for South Africa. To be missing from relevant databases e.g. the official SARU database and a RL database is rather odd, as is the lack of relevant GHits - unless of course the claim is nonsense. In which case, it should be removed and we're left with a college football player, failing WP:ATHLETE. Bencherlite ^Talk 19:36, 5 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete - the more I research this, the more I think it is a hoax. I've added the best source I can find - there's also an Aussie judoka by this name, apparently - but not enough for an apparent international player. Giant Snowman 19:38, 5 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of South Africa-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 10:16, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 10:16, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 10:16, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Rugby union-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 10:16, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - started searching the other night for evidence of his existence and came up blank, not listed in any St Helens or Gold Coast RL records. Likely hoax. The-Pope (talk) 15:31, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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