On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Carcharoth<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Bod Notbod<[email protected]> wrote: > > <snip> > >> I found a new article the other day and it was all about this guy who >> was described as "the greatest child genius the world has ever seen". >> >> There was a long list of verifications although not enough to cover >> most of the points made in the article. I smelled a rat and stuck a >> "hoax" banner on it. There was (IIRC) one editor. There were pictures. >> The citations were all to books with no online click-thru. The whole >> thing just smelled wrong. I wish I could remember the article now... >> >> Just combed back through my last 500 contribs. Can't find it. If an >> article had been deleted would it disappear from my contribs? > > Yes. > > 05:24, 30 July 2009 David Eppstein (talk | contribs | block) deleted > "James Cornelius Leach" (G3: Vandalism: Blatant hoax with possible > G10 aspects)
I also looked at the deleted version of the article, and it was a copy of this, I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
