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The result was delete. Hoax or not, there isn't a snowball's chance of this having any other result. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 12:39, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yang Tiao[edit]

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A lengthy, unreferenced article with a lot of mislabeled and unlabeled images irrelevant to the article's supposed subject. I can't find any references to substantiate this article's content; it appears to be an elaborate hoax. See related discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject China#Yang Tiao. Muchness (talk) 13:28, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I brought this up at WT:CHINA because there seemed to be something not quite right with it. I don't want to regurgitate what I said there, but as Muchness states, it appears to be a hoax, and unless some reliable sources can be found, I feel it should be deleted as such. --Kateshortforbob _talk 14:25, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I declined a WP:CSD#G3 request for deletion as I didn't think it was a blatant enough hoax. I tried to find sources but the best I could find was being included in List of people of the Three Kingdoms and an extremely brief mention of the name here. I suspect that the person was real, but that the content in this article is made up. The photos being of different people is certainly suspect. SmartSE (talk) 14:38, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete There are a few telltale signs, in addition to the concerns already raised: 1) All the Chinese characters are obviously (to a Chinese speaker) from Google Translate. 2) Rafe de Crespigny's A Biographical Dictionary of the Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD), which meticulously lists all persons mentioned in historical records of during those years has only says this about "Yang Tiao": "As Commandant of Chengyang county in Jiyin in 172, Yang Tiao was involved in the restoration of the Spiritual Terrace associated with the temple of the sage Emperor Yao." This is vastly different from the article here, and most importantly it's talking about 楊調, not 楊體凹 (What kind of stupid name is that anyways? See point one) 3) The "Yang Tiao" in List of people of the Three Kingdoms and the PDF in the above reply are referring to a 楊條, whose only record in history was described in that PDF (which erroneously says the year in which he thrived, the second year of the Taihe era, was 367 - it's actually 228). Nothing in the historical records justifies what was written on the article, and it appears that it is only an unfortunate coincidence that this ficticious Yang Tiao shares the same romanization of two other real, but still non-notable, Yang Tiaos. _dk (talk) 15:23, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The Chinese characters used in the article mark it as an obvious forgery. Snuge purveyor (talk) 19:17, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: Silly article, the name 楊體凹 gives it away. None of the claims are backed by any sources. --benlisquare_T•C•E 21:53, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Nonetheless, I had a good laugh at the "Marquis Dragon of Gong (Chinese: 侯龙的锣)" part. I don't think the creator knows any Chinese, rather I believe he relied on an online translator to generate the characters, explaining the ridiculous Chinese name. Edit: I just tried "Yang Tiao" in Google Translate and indeed, it generated 楊體凹...Timmyshin (talk) 18:16, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many of Google's services rely on Wikipedia. If you type in "Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi" in Google Search, you will get the Wikipedia article on the side, plus a few of the top images from Google Image Search, next to the search results. Google Translate's language database also relies on Wikipedia articles. Theoretically, if I were to modify Wikipedia so that "Barack Obama" corresponded to "坏人" (bad person) in Google's database, that too would be the result that comes up in Google Translate. --benlisquare_T•C•E 08:53, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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