Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian Rømer

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Sockpuppet and anonymous votes were disregarded. Including User:Turkoftheplains as the likely article author does not change the outcome. Postdlf 00:40, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Brian Rømer

This looks like a hoax. Uppland 08:00, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

• DeleteTotal hoax. No doubt about it. Svest 10:01, May 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete -- Longhair | Talk 10:54, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless someone can show any truth in it. One live link-to, orse zero. --Simon Cursitor 06:53, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Romer EXISTED, at the very least, and he was a falconer, if not necessarily a paleobotanist. I chanced upon him while working on a project for my intro Danish class at Penn, although not in any Danish books... I also happened to be looking up Falconry at the time (for personal interest and for an anthropology class, but let's not get into it...) I'll try and keep you abreast as I try to get these books back, and verify the information on Romer. I can tell you this off the bat, though-- he was NOT Dutch. At least not in his mind; his mother may have felt differently. --Turk of the Plains 05:54, 5 May 2005 (GMT)
  • Only edits are to the article and this VfD.[1]
• Keep Looks real enough to me...a bit out there for a hoax, no? --psu199 17:14, 5 May 2005 (GMT)
  • User's only contributions.[2]
• Keep Why not, looks legit.
  • Only contribution by anonymous IP.[3]
• Comment: Adding false references to the article doesn't really improve its believability, does it? -- Uppland 16:47, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: Eesh. That random Danish link missed my eye; sort of an asinine thing to put in, don't you think? The falconry book is at least plausible, although I'll grant you that plausibility and accuracy are not quite the same. Being that I don't currently have access to a large body of foreign-language falconry literature, and that, alas, I can't exactly be reading about falconry in twelve languages anyway, I don't know what to tell you. In any case, making up garbage about Romer is a pretty stupid way to blow smoke up our collective orifices, although it would appear that someone has done that. Alternatively, someone has cooked up a hastily cobbled-together collection of half-truths, fairy tales, and skulduggery, then thrown in a dash of chicanery and called it a legitimate article on Romer. As I hope you can all see, I've been working to remedy this (I'll get on those references in due time), but Uppland and others can hardly be faulted for their skepticism. -- turkoftheplains 04:59, 9 May 2005 (GMT)

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