Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yuri Gadyukin

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 SNOW DELETE, and borderline CSD anyway. No point in going 7 days when the outcome is this certain. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 16:30, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yuri Gadyukin

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A blatant hoax, and seems to be one of the longest-living hoaxes we have. None of the sources exist. The seacrh in Russian (Юрий Гадюкин) does not give anything at all. The name (Gadyukin) is a made-up family name used by ~~Yury Iosifovich Koval~~ Viktor Dragunsky in one of the children's stories (Death of the spy Gadyukin). The alleged name of the first movie, Where the tractors roam, sounds so funny in Russian that it just could not have been shot in the 1950s. Needless to say, the movie was indeed never shot, and the search in Russian gives zero results. The Bucharest Film Festival, where Gadyukin allegedly got a prize, is a hoax as well and is currently on AfD. (Note that both articles were created by single-purpose accounts). See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bucharest Film Festival for more reasoning. Ymblanter (talk) 13:46, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have no subject-matter expertise, but I notice that this article is the creator's only contribution. In the case of a suspected hoax, this is never a good sign. Newyorkbrad (talk) 14:42, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:03, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete if User:Ymblanter is correct. Certainly the ISBNs are fake as far as Gadyukin is concerned. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:42, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- The ISBNs seem fine (the books exist), but the only hits for Yuri Gadyukin in Google Books are in Wikipedia-based books. Andreas JN 466 21:23, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The domain "yurigadyukin.com" is from "Ian [email protected]" which does not seem remotely rational for a "real" person. Collect (talk) 02:05, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete excellent work, though. DGG ( talk ) 03:32, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: As hoax. One hallmark of a hoax like this is the claimed death under suspicious circumstances. Not to mentioned a dedicated website that is not believable, and scattered stuff from the same time as the article creation time in the fall of 2009 that make the joke more plain, e.g., [1] ("Sadly not only has this tape not worn well over the years, but, thanks to my Dad, the last twenty minutes or so were lost to the 1989 World Snooker Final.")--Milowent • ^hasspoken 06:14, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a probable hoax. Name of the film is most unlikely, as is the claim to have been "drafted as a child soldier" at age 12. Smells like fiction from start to finish. Surname is not a common Russian surname. Etc. Carrite (talk) 06:16, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a bit curious how the first purported title in the bibliography, Eastern European Cinema and the Totalitarian State, WAS LISTED IN WORLD CAT. I believe this is a hoax listing as well. Carrite (talk) 06:22, 6 March 2013 (UTC) Last edit: Carrite (talk) 06:27, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that's weird, just found a second title in WorldCat by this author, ostensibly published by I.B. Tauris in 2002 and residing in one copy only in the British Library. As a book freak, I can't emphasize how unlikely it is that an academic publisher would be placing ONLY ONE COPY in a WorldCat registering library. Very strange. Possible, I suppose, but very, very unlikely. Carrite (talk) 06:36, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've tracked down Dr. Stojanova's email address and have asked her to clarify whether or not she actually wrote the two I.B. Tauris books. Carrite (talk) 06:54, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

lol: look at this youtube vid [2]. All may have been a setup for an indie film plot.[3]--Milowent • ^hasspoken 06:34, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent find! Carrite (talk) 06:58, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The article was created by Paulsorberg (talk · contribs) - who communicated with GeorgeJLewis (talk · contribs)!!!! here [4]. about the fictional Bucharest Film Festival which we also have at AFD. Good work to everyone on digging out the other items. Looks like the internet could easily create a Blair Witch Project on steroids with the way you could lay in a backstory. MarnetteD | Talk 07:11, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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