Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bryan J. Baldelli

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The result was speedy delete. Sir Sputnik (talk) 03:13, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bryan J. Baldelli[edit]

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None of the references lead anywhere, and a web search finds nothing but the WP article and derivatives of it. Smells like a hoax Chris the speller ^yack 18:55, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete as a hoax No such player in the databases, and the page claims this individual played in MLB. We'd know him if he did. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:41, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete You might - I wouldn't. I do know that someone's advertising a book by this title for $101.72 or CDN$ 74.38 if you get it from Amazon Canada. And it consists of Wikipedia pages... I think I'm in the wrong business. This started off as a comment. I've now been through nine pages of ghits, and found nothing except mirrors or rehashes. It looks like we've got a Lieutenant Kije here. This article has been up for FOUR YEARS almost to the day, and been edited by all sorts of people. My congratulations to the person who spotted this. Peridon (talk) 23:21, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I spotted it, and I should have marked it for speedy deletion, but was astonished how long it survived and how many editors had "improved" it, so I thought I would tread lightly. It was only in trying to categorize by what state he was born in that it started to smell fishy. It was an interesting case. Chris the speller ^yack 01:50, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:46, 29 February 2012 (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.