Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Trolls 4

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

The result of the discussion was: no consensus. ✗plicit 11:17, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Trolls 4

Entire lead is a hoax. William Graham ^talk 23:31, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Unsubmitted drafts are not checked for notability, accuracy or sanity. There's plenty of time for the author to fix the mistakes, or for it to be deleted if it goes 6 months without activity. We only get strict once the draft is submitted for approval, and/or when it is accepted/moved into mainspace. Cambalachero (talk) 17:20, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cambalachero: Hoax drafts are subject to deletion, just as are any other hoax pages. As for "There's plenty of time for the author to fix the mistakes", if it's a hoax then it isn't a mistake; it's deliberate. As for "deleted if it goes 6 months without activity", I have known hoax pages created in draft space to be kept alive for years because a group of (presumably) children, treating Wikipedia as a place to play around with fantasy material, have kept editing them, never leaving six months without doing so. Draft space is not for indefinite hosting of material which is irrelevant to the encyclopaedia, whether or not it is left for six months without editing. In fact I would say that if a hoax/fantasy page is actively being edited then there is more reason to delete it immediately than if it has been abandoned. JBW (talk) 18:10, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - BLP violations, using the names of real people without verification, and we do get strict with BLPsde;ete. Likely hoax. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert McClenon (talk • contribs) 02:22 19 September 2024 (UTC)
I disagree that the bluelinked names amounts to a BLP violation. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:19, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – We need @SineBot: over here. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 16:37, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Since I’m over here already; might as well !vote. I’ll say weak delete per @Robert McClenon. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 16:43, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Per WP:NDRAFT. Unsourced, but probably true. SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:21, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per JBW below, a probable hoax. SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:45, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I very much suspect that this is a hoax. Searching for conformation of the content of the draft, I found only unreliable sources, such as Fandom, TikToc, etc. It is virtually inconceivable that I would not have been able to find something from at least one reliable source if there really had been an announcement of this film in the making. JBW (talk) 18:10, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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