Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teddy Dressing

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 deleted as hoax. (Well, it's going to be deleted via archive, anyway.) ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 03:20, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Teddy Dressing[edit]

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Non-notable book per WP:BK. The author doesn't have an article either. SL93 (talk) 00:44, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 00:54, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as all signs point to this being a hoax article. Check out the article as first created; it suggests as much. Nothing on the creators or the title on GoodReads or on WorldCat. The creator's other articles should be investigated for more hoaxing. DiamondRemley39 (talk) 02:15, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm going to delete this as a hoax. Looking at the original version of the article, the creator wrote

Teddy Dressing has mysteriously disappeared from shelves across the globe. The record has been wiped clean. This remains a mystery to many parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and children. All wonder if the book was merely a figment of their imaginations, if the book could possibly have a different title.

This means that this was either a hoax or the title was completely wrong. However there's more proof to show that it's a hoax. They came back later and changed the writing to this:

Teddy Dressing has mysteriously disappeared from shelves across the globe. The record has been wiped clean, save for a few copies in remote libraries. This remains a mystery to many parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and children. All wonder if the book was merely a figment of their imaginations since many do not know it still exists, or if the book could possibly have had a different title.

They also added an image, File:Teddydressing.jpg. It was deleted due to licensing issues, but thanks to having my admin voodoo I was able to examine the image... which showed that the "proof" of existence was just a printed piece of paper taped to another book. You can even see the paper corner where they tried to hide that it was fake by folding it under the book spine, but failed to notice that you could still tell that it was a single piece of paper. The same goes for the other side of the paper. It also has that obvious look of an image printed off a home printer.

So essentially, it's fake. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 03:16, 28 August 2020 (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.