Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joey Garcia
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- 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 SPEEDY DELETE (G3). Alexf(talk) 19:20, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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IMHO, I think this short biography is an hoax, because it states that this "physicist" won the Max Planck Medal in 1963, but it's wrong: I checked the list in the official site and there's no recipients with this name. Moreover, the author of this article made this edit 6 years ago, where he replaced the 1962 recipient with a link to this article, and this error lasted for almost 2 years. Mess (talk) 09:54, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as a hoax. There's precisely nothing out there on this supposed physicist, and since most of the creator's other edits were vandalism... Nice find. Sideways713 (talk) 11:10, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - This seems to be a hoax. The only references I found about this supposed person on the internet repeat that he won the Max Planck Medal in 1963. They either acknowledged the Wikipedia article or did no research to check whether Garcia won this award. I checked, as Mess did, and there never was a Joey Garcia who won this award - not in 1963 and not ever. Bill Pollard (talk) 12:25, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:40, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:40, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy delete as a hoax.--Yaksar (let's chat) 23:35, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete This article illustrates why allowing unsourced articles to exist is problematic.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:40, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- 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.
