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The result was SPEEDY DELETE. Michael (talk) 07:57, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Jerome Gleason (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • Stats)

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This article is unsourced and is full of original research and the factual a uccuracy of the article has been disputed, see the oldid before I reverted [1]. The article states that he was "little known". While the reverted version did contain a source, it wasn't used in text and I can't confirm the existence of a book entitled "Secrets of the US Government" by L.N. Harrt"  Ryan Vesey Review me! 00:24, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy delete. This looks very much like a hoax. Note that the "Childhood" section of the article says that Gleason was born in Germany as Emilian Wehrle, but changed his name later in life. Following the Wehrle link leads to an article about a clockmaker who died in Germany in 1896; it is illustrated with the same photo as the Gleason article. The Gleason article was created by an editor whose contribution history shows only a handful of edits apart from the creation of this article; none of those edits was especially constructive, and one of them was what, even stretching WP:FAITH to its utmost, I can only call deliberate vandalism. The vandalized article was Trumpeter clock, which is connected to Wehrle the clockmaker; the Gleason article was created two days after the vandalizing edit, and used the Wehrle photo. Ammodramus (talk) 03:58, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• db-hoax and so tagged Links to real person using exact same photo, claims received degree in "Forensic Science" from Harvard 1862. Bullshit. (Checking creators other articles to see what lurks there.) EEng (talk) 04:27, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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