Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/M. Schuyler Towne
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- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.
The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 13:45, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] M. Schuyler Towne
This sounds too much like a hoax to be believable. The editor who put the article up agrees that the story sounds far-fatched, and asserts that the guy is at least a legit musician. So the {{|tl|disputed}} tag goes up and the article is listed for proper discussion at AfD.
This is the discussion copied from the talk page:
- No pertinent Google hits for "Schuyler Towne" "Life Art", "Schuyler Towne" suicide, "Schuyler Towne" Toronto or "Schuyler Towne" assault.
- There is a Schuyler Towne with the Poor Artists Collective in New York City who doesn't fit the description in this article at all. Pilatus 16:34, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
- I heard this story from a friend of mine who actually has some of his music, don't know if the suicide story is true as it seems a little far fetched. The guy actually existed though, I'll scan the picture on the album and put up a sample of the music if I can. Comment left by User:199.74.155.50 (contributions).
Delete as unconfirmed. Pilatus 17:47, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
- Per Google, M. Schuyler Towne is a writer and comic book artist from Boston. Notability is doubtful; he gets just 20 hits without the initial M. — with it he gets just five. I suppose it's remotely possible that the real M. Schuyler Towne actually is notable for reasons I don't know of, but he's most certainly not a dead-by-stage-suicide performance artist from Toronto as this article claims. (If such a person had ever existed, there's no way in hell I wouldn't have heard of them.) Delete hoax. Bearcat 10:44, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. --maclean25 08:03, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
- 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.
