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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 11:15, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hoax letter writers (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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This is effectively a list. Unfeferenced, safe for one example, fails WP:GNG, WP:NLIST, WP:V and has issues with WP:OR. The concept of a hoax letter (or prank letter, a term suggested as better in the 2008 no consensus AfD) is not defined in an article, nor is it even a category. As a final straw, many of the purported examples do not even make it clear what is the "hoax letter", consider for example this: "Edna Welthorpe was a prudish middle-aged housewife who was strongly opposed to her creator Joe Orton's plays." Uh, what? Other examples seem to be about fictional works (books) with the word letter in the title, about fictional collection of letters, or emails, or... This is one of the worst lists I've seen in my years here, a total mess. PS. It is possible the concept of a hoax or prank letter is notable, but it would need to be written from scratch (WP:TNT...). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:39, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people, Fictional elements, and Literature. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:39, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as a random list; fails WP:LIST. If someone can rescue this into a real article, that would prevent a WP:TNT situation. Bearian (talk) 18:06, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. There is no supporting Hoax letter article or section of Literary forgery or Practical joke to justify a list of such writers. The names in the current article, if they have their own article, are better suited for a bottom declaration of Category:Literary forgeries or Category:Lists of practical jokes. 5Q5|^✉ 11:58, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per all. Fails WP:GNG, WP:NOT, and WP:NLIST as something that hasn't been discussed as a group. Shooterwalker (talk) 14:47, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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