Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oyster Injustice

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The result was delete. — Aitias // discussion 00:48, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oyster Injustice

Discussion to run until at least 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Almost certainly a hoax. A Google search turns up nothing for this other than mirrors of this page and a couple of blogs that use this page as their point of reference. The references look unrelated. The Grand Funk Railroad song doesn't show up on a Google search, either. Surely something that was purportedly so important to prisoner treatment in the Civil War would be mentioned SOMEWHERE online other than Wikipedia. I'm bringing this here in the hope that a wider audience can figure out if this is a hoax as I believe, or it really is some forgotten corner of American history. (Unlike the Chesapeake pirate, who really was a hoax. What is it with the Chesapeake Bay and hoax articles?) Flopsy Mopsy and Cottonmouth (talk) 21:03, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as a hoax. No references in Gnews, Gbooks, Gscholar--it doesn't exit. Drmies (talk) 21:08, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Obvious hoax. Have to give them points for that though. §FreeRangeFrog 21:10, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, as nominator. To the administrator who removes this article, if it is deleted: please make certain that "this article was deleted as a hoax" is included in the reason for deletion, so that people who come to look at this article from the pages of the couple of foolish bloggers who were taken in by this hoax will know that it's not for real. Flopsy Mopsy and Cottonmouth (talk) 21:23, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete as G3. I'm almost certain hoaxes count as vandalism. Inferno, Lord of Penguins 22:06, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~Keep~~ Delete - This article is not a hoax. It is maybe inaccurate and incomplete. There are plenty of references to these wars across the web, not just blogs, and a book has been written about them. It seems clear that there were oyster wars fought between Maryland and Virginia watermen during the 19th century. I have appended some "additional references" to the article for consideration. I propose keeping the article, but tagging as needing expert help - unless someone here can flesh it out properly in the meantime. --Geronimo20 (talk) 22:22, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The creator of this article gave this citation: Report of the U.S. Fish Commission for 1873-74 and 1874-75 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876), p. 289. This report is available online here. Page 289 occurs in this part. You can see for yourself that it does not support what was said in the article. In the light of the comments below, I have changed my vote to "delete". --Geronimo20 (talk) 23:12, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The problem with the above comment is that the additional references all refer to "oyster wars" from the 1870s, while the so-called "Oyster Injustice" doesn't appear anywhere in the refs provided. The whole thing smells fishy (pardon the pun); I suggest this be deleted' as a potential hoax that cannot be verified (unless someone turns up some bloody perfect references before the end of this discussion), and if someone feels like creating a page regarding the Oyster wars, they do so using the references provided. Tony Fox (arf!) 22:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Unverifiable at best. Edward321 (talk) 00:29, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom as hoax; and why, pray tell, must this continue to discredit WP for 4 more days? Who added those tags? Can someone WP:IAR and close this early to remove this hoax? Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:02, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per digging around for oysters online and not finding them. I'm convinced this is not just a hoax, but one that effort was put into off of Wikipedia. Incidentally, it's interesting how adding an article to Wikipedia creates so many "sources" in just a few days by sites copying it. FlyingToaster 22:03, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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