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The result was delete. WP:IAR. I have zero tolerance for this tactic. Will do the necessary moves. NeilN talk to me 21:20, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
Cell Phone Signal Booster
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The references seem to be a mostly/all fake. None of the 8 references are available online. In particular:
- Reference 3 is just a link to a journalism school.
- The Saturday Paper is used as reference 5, but the reference says it was the 5 January 2014 edition; the paper began publishing on March 2014 (see our article, and the reference used that confirms the March 2014 launch [1]).
- Tele-Tech & Electronic Industries Journal is used as reference, but it appears this hasn't been published since 1956 [2].
- The New York Times article in reference 7 doesn't appear to exist (I'm assuming the title in the reference is a typo, but there are no similarly titled articles); Google shows many, many NYT articles on this subject, but nothing with this date or this author
- It appears that no such book as reference 8 exists; claims to be published by Houghton Mifflin, but doesn't show up in their web site [3]. Plus, does that really look like a legit book title to you?
In addition to questionable references:
- The article was created by an SPA who moved an existing page and overwrote the content, rather than create a new page; this is a tactic done to avoid new page patrollers.
- Promotional in tone.
I'm sorely tempted to just delete this as dishonestly created spam, but the article has been here since 2015 (!) so I guess another week can't hurt. Note to closing admin: if this is a "delete", we should probably remove content, delete Mayawaits' contribs, and move it back to Witt equivalence; there's some history there to preserve that was lost in the page move. And probably a futile block of long-abandoned User:Mayawaits for spamming. Floquenbeam ( talk) 21:09, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
- Nuke and pave into a redirect to cellular repeater. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:17, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
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