User talk:Lifeforce99

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Please do not create hoaxes. Please do not attempt to put misinformation into Wikipedia to test our ability to detect and remove it. This has been done before, with varying results. Most hoaxes are marked for deletion within a few hours after they are created. Some Wikipedians suspect that the majority of hoaxes here are attempts to test the system. Kindly — do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. If you are interested in how accurate Wikipedia is, a more constructive test method is to try to find inaccurate statements that are already in Wikipedia, and then to check to see how long they have been in place and, if possible, correct them. Dan Gluck 18:10, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Sorry if you did not intentionally created a hoax. I understand now that this was not your intention, but as far as I could tell your article was based on a website which I'm pretty sure is a hoax. It is legitimate to create an article about an internet hoax if you specify that it is a hoax, and if it is notable, but you can't just take any website and create an article from that, because in many cases the information is just not true. Many of those websites are full of jokes and hoaxes.

The reason why I think it's a hoax is that I didn't find anything else on that, the idea sounds absurd and the fact that a rock star invented this sounds like something a hoaxer will add to make the hoax more extravagant. This does not mean, of course, that rock star cannot invent anything, it just that most of the times I've heard some celebrity invented something, it was a hoax. Yet another reason was obvious errors in the article (such as that hydrogen can be a +2 ion).

It is yet remotely possible that the website was not a hoax, and in that case I really appologize. However in that case the invention is not notable either, at least not until further proved. There are millions (or at least thousands) of patents registered every year, and only few really become products. There are many more ideas which do not even become a patent. Therefore even if it is not a hoax, there is no room for such an article in Wikipedia due to lack of notability.

I hope that dispite my discouraging remarks, you will continue to contribute to Wikipedia. We just all have to be cautious about putting in material which we're not sure is correct. Dan Gluck 06:32, 12 July 2007 (UTC)