Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Esa'ala Cave

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. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:29, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Esa'ala Cave

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Requesting deletion per this discussion. To elaborate: I had created this article some time ago after reading about [the real cave] in an adventure magazine, here in Sri Lanka. It sounded very notable (not just because of the movie), so I went ahead and created a stub on it. Back then, I intended to add refs to the article after creating it, but had somehow forgotten. I now cannot find any verifiable sources to support the fact that this is/could be a real cave.

The old version (around the time it was created) is here. If real, the cave is supposed to be in the Esa'ala District of Papua New Guinea, at roughly this location.

I propose to delete this article as I cannot find any reliable source that states that this is in fact a real cave. Reh man 13:33, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Everymorning (talk) 13:52, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I support User:Rehman's proposal. From my knowledge of caves and caving accumulated over 50 years I was always sceptical about the reality of this cave (believe me, caves don't remain partially explored for very long!), and looked hard in the specialist literature for evidence of its existence, and asked various people who have been on caving expeditions out that way if they knew of it, without success. All the information on the web about this cave seems to have been extracted from the original Wikipedia article! --Langcliffe (talk) 15:37, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support. For a long time I wanted to write about this cave in Russian Wikipedia. However, I could not find reliable sources. --Insider (talk) 06:29, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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