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The result was speedy delete as admitted hoax. Dragons flight 00:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Persian Panda[edit]

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Primary author is a known sockpuppet, confirmed by checkuser. Article appears to be a hoax. Google searches are unable to identify meaningful evidence of a "persian panda" (though there is a blogger using that name), and the article itself provides no sources. Dragons flight 04:46, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Awwwwww, pandas are so cute! Delete as hoax, but a very well-written one. In fact, it's extraordinarily difficult to prove that it's a hoax -- the only thing we have to go by is the lack of sources. --N Shar (talk • contribs) 05:13, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Hoax. If Scylax of Caryanda had written about bears, that fact would pop up in a web search, and it doesn't. --Akhilleus (talk) 05:27, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Speedy Delete as completely unsourced and a probable hoax. I'll gladly change my opinion, if any reliable sources are provided. --Stephan Schulz 07:38, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  Upgraded to speedy after it was acknowledged as a hoax.--Stephan Schulz 20:07, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, WP:V, WP:HOAX. Terence Ong 恭喜发财 08:15, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete A very well-written and plausible-sounding hoax, even I was fooled by it until I found the discussion on the administrator's noticeboard. I can find no sources that can verify that the panda exists, and certainly no reliable ones. --sunstar net^talk 09:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.