User talk:Pi3141592
Thanks for reverting the Vandalism to my Talk Page e0steven(☎Talk|✍Contrib) 15:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. I have some concerns & doubts about the above-named article you'd recently created, which I've summarised at Talk:Aztec shadow snake. Would appreciate your clarifying and commenting in response, on the article talk page. Regards, --cjllw ʘ TALK 08:26, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
- Hi. That "exact quote" you've mentioned on the talk pg is not very convincing, and you've not specified where it comes from. I cannot find the quote in whole or in part in either of the two refs you'd provided earlier. I am even more inclined now to suspect this is a hoax, and have put the article up for deletion. If you do have reliable (see WP:RS for definition) and verifiable (see WP:V) sources that contain this information, then now is the time to come up with them, at the article's deletion discussion page: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Aztec_shadow_snake. Regards --cjllw ʘ TALK 05:00, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
- Well, thanks at least for coming clean on that hoax. You ask why the other hoax Death bird had remained undetected for six months. Simple answer -- virtually nobody read it in those six months. The article was orphaned (had no links to it), and no-one was searching for it. It was just one page among 2.5 million or so others; the hoaxer (you under another handle, I spose?) probably spent many more minutes writing it, than all of the people who saw it in those 6 months did in reading it—combined. Just take a look through the page view statistics for it here. An average of less than two (2) page-views per month, and a portion of those merely drive-by auto-assisted spellchecks and the like, not interested in reading it. Another portion no doubt would be the hoaxer themselves, checking in from time to time to see if it was still there. The moment someone with any nous and knowledge came across it, it was instantly rumbled as a hoax and dealt with.
- So, it was literally fooling nobody when nobody knew or saw it was there; for all the impact it had it could've been written on a scrap of paper and wedged in the bottom of a drawer. Doesn't seem a very worthwhile pursuit to me, but I spose some folks have their own ideas on how to kill time. Regards, --cjllw ʘ TALK 15:09, 6 February 2009 (UTC)