Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pham Hoang
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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 Delete. This seems to have sat open quite a bit longer than it should've, but it's an obvious hoax and I see no reason to let it remain. 18:16, 19 September 2011 (UTC)UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did
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This entry is a fake. There was never any Vietnamese astronaut named "Pham Hoang" or "Phạm Hoàng". It appears that a non-notable computer programmer created this article to apprise Wiki readers of his "single" status, and to detail heroic space and aviation deeds he never performed. The content of this article was cut and pasted from the article Pham Tuan, i.e. the biography of an actual Vietnamese astronaut. Kauffner (talk) 13:17, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - I didn't see any notable mentions for a biography on Google and Yahoo aside from news articles mentioning his jail time here.SwisterTwister talk 22:17, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Pham Minh Hoang is a different person, a political dissident who is the subject of hundreds of articles in the international press and who has his own Wiki article. This AFD is some computer programmer living in Vietnam who has never been mentioned in any media report, but who has written himself up as an astronaut. Kauffner (talk) 23:10, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Point is that there aren't any sources for this Pham Hoang either. SwisterTwister talk 01:32, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Pham Minh Hoang is a different person, a political dissident who is the subject of hundreds of articles in the international press and who has his own Wiki article. This AFD is some computer programmer living in Vietnam who has never been mentioned in any media report, but who has written himself up as an astronaut. Kauffner (talk) 23:10, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Delete Good catch on the Hoax. Yup, it is a cut and paste of Pham Tuan's article. Absolutely nothing on Pham Hoang. Bgwhite (talk) 21:50, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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