Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric van Viele

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The result was speedy delete. Speedy deleted by ST47, CSD G3 blatant hoax, CSD A7 notability not asserted. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:05, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Eric van Viele

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Another one of these really old articles for someone with little to no notability. I can't find much for him. He was in only one film-Nosferatu, which if not delete a redirect. It says he was a stage actor, but I can't find any info about his stage career online. Wgolf (talk) 23:13, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

• Delete: Though the creator's other later edits appear good faith, the text is fundamentally the same as at its original 2006 creation and the claim that he was executed for stalking and violence is extraordinary and requires sources -- not found at GNews archive, nor anywhere else including Murnau (1970). I can't find his name in any source prior to 2006, however he does appear once (in the credits) in Nosferatu (1922): eine Symphonie des Grauens (2013), and that's presumably a reliable source not subject to citogenesis... ^~Hydronium^~Hydroxide^~(Talk)~ 00:50, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 05:02, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 05:02, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 05:03, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

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• Delete No sources to be found at all. I think it’s a hoax. Mccapra (talk) 06:55, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
• It is a hoax. The Wayback Machine and the article's history reveal that the WWW site that used to be an external hyperlink in the article was joke legal advice from a fake WWW site for the non-existent law firm in ABC sitcom Welcher & Welcher, where one can find the claim about this person being made. The ABC took the page down in 2006. Wikipedia still carries the hoax, 13 years later. Uncle G (talk) 19:58, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
  • Subject: So You've Defamed a Politican? at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-08-24)
• Comment-feel free to add it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia then Wgolf (talk) 20:04, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Just added it to Wikipedia talk:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia, hopefully they will add it (they never added a couple I have found that I have mentioned. I would add them but I know I will mess up the table). Though not sure if it would count as this guy was apparently real but the story wasn't Wgolf (talk) 20:54, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

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