Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cool Zone

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:36, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cool Zone

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Issues were raised several years ago that this seems to be a hoax. Indeed, searching "Cool Zone" with the names listed turns up no results. If it did exist, it gained no notability. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 23:41, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I deprodded this, as it was previously prodded in December 2007, but deprodded two days later by an IP. Supposedly a TV series in four parts each 5 minutes long on C31 Adelaide aired in August–September 2005. The article has never been referenced to sources. Let's search with two modifiers

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I find nothing but Wikipedia mirrors. There are a few things suggesting this is a hoax: Originally created by an editor claiming to be a journalist from South Australia, the article has seen no substantial edits for the last eight years, but between its creation in February 2006 until January 2010, most substantial edits were performed by IPs that geolocate to NSW on ranges 58.104*, 58.105*, 58.106*, and 220.238* that all are assigned to Optus. When an IP was done half an hour after creation, the host was one Matty-T.

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But no sources are found. A week later the host name is changed to Emmy T, so ...

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... you guessed it: nada. One Adam Micheal Todd is a short-lived "host" (don't bother to search) before the host becomes one X-Cool in January 2007 (don't bother to search), and when 220.238.66.209 (talk) in December 2007 deprods and removes the unreferenced tag, they change the host name to M-Cool (don't bother to search).

All in all, this has all the hallmarks of a hoax - thank you both 98.209.191.37 (talk) and TenPoundHammer - and seems with an age of 18 years to be a contender for a current second place on Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia. Sam Sailor 23:47, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - fails GNG. ^{Atsme📞📧} 01:41, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Jack Frost (talk) 02:03, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:02, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I'm not going to scream hoax on this because this was a show on a community TV station, thus by design sourcing is going to be horrible; I believe it did air. But it didn't get beyond four weeks and this seems to be an artifact of the time where we were writing about anything that premiered on television and were loose with sources. If it did air, it likely did in a low-profile timeslot with viewership among a select few people. I also believe the continual 'host' switching was IPs having a go on an article without many visitors. Nate • (chatter) 04:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and move to Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia In spite of the fact that this show was allegedly aired on a community TV station, the article still claims that it had "a cult following" (which I believe is incredibly unlikely for a program that aired for a very short time; also searching information for that claim brings me zero positive results on Google) and apparently several other Australian TV channels were interested in picking up the show back in 2006 but didn't happen because of disagreements with M-Cool or whoever the IP decides to change the host's name to (attempting to search for any news coverage of this show on Google News brings me zero results). I do agree that this should be archived as a hoax simply because of how long this article managed to evade detection for a very long time. 98.209.191.37 (talk) 12:59, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails GNG regardless of veracity. –dlthewave ☎ 14:03, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I'm sceptical this existed because of the five minute episodes consisting of "numerous" segments each strikes me as unlikely, but either way I couldn't find any sources at all, having looked quite hard, so the article shouldn't stay. Mortee (talk) 18:39, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, even if this is not a hoax, it's totally unverifiable and as such it has to go. Given that it is supposedly a short running interstitial programme on a community television station in a smaller city, I don't think it is beyond the realm of possibility that it existed and the Internet has simply forgotten all about it. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 00:19, 17 January 2018 (UTC).[reply]
Delete We can't know if it is a hoax. We can quite clearly know that it isn't notable. —Tom Morris (talk) 14:57, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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