- 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. Tawker ( talk) 06:19, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Connecticut Peace Officers Association
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Article is about a very short-lived internet hoax that was quickly debunked. Article is a self-published Wikipedia article about the hoax, and was created by the hoaxer theirself, a single-purpose editor with an obvious conflict of interest. Article was first created by the hoaxer with the essential claims of the hoax (that the Connecticut Peace Officers Association was real, and involved in a gun law debate in a certain way). When that was quickly discovered on-wiki and the article was PRODDED (Proposed for a simple deletion), the hoaxer came back, removed the PROD, and then edited the article to make it a descriptive documentary about his/her hoax. Mvialt ( talk) 12:02, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp ( talk) 14:10, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp ( talk) 14:10, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
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- Delete: If some new references do not show otherwise, I am for deletion. -- BiH ( talk) 17:42, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
- Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica 1000 16:06, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
- Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 18:38, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
- Delete, as nom. Nothing has changed. The article was initially written as if the CPOA really existed, as part of the original hoax. It was quickly debunked. Then, the hoaxer switched to trying to get a Wikipedia article to document his hoax in perpeptuity. And, as noted, it fails general notability criteria for an article in Wikipedia. Mvialt ( talk) 12:43, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
- 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.