The result was no consensus. Sandstein 22:00, 2 January 2009 (UTC) reply
Even though this page now shows it was created as a hoax, it's creation falls squarely into WP:HOAX & WP:MADEUP and I was tempted to CSD it as such. Even though the hoax itself has now started to garner some third party sources and blogs, this page in itself is certainly NN as anyone with a modicum of intelligence understands that fake information can be easily added to Wikipedia, and is no different to the hundreds of hoax pages created daily. Khu kri 12:59, 24 December 2008 (UTC) reply
of the hoax will now have a set of false beliefs about the past. Only if a searcher returns to this article, or one derived from it, can the hoax be discovered. There remain other references to the so-called pirate, even within Wikipedia, that do not indicate that the story is false. The students may have thought what they were doing was instructive, but they quickly lost control of the information. So Wikipedia needs to retain the corrected article as at least a last resort attempt to correct the fraud and lead searchers to the truth of the matter. T. McFadden —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.52.218.40 ( talk) 14:44, 2 January 2009 (UTC) reply