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The result was speedy delete per WP:CSD#G3 regarding blatant hoaxes. As SpacemanSpiff points out, the external links are to a fantasy cricket website and this is clearly not fit for an encyclopedia. In fairness to Maury Markowitz (talk · contribs), who declined the PROD, the request was malformed and no reason given, but there doesn't seem to be much point in keeping this AfD open when the article falls within the speedy deletion criteria. Nev1 (talk) 18:52, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Saurashtra Lions Cricket Club
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A blatantly obvious hoax presenting a fantasy cricket team as a real one, but I won't tag it for speedy deletion as an admin has contested WP:PROD deletion with the comment "seems perfectly good to me". No sources are offered (the external links are all to non-existent pages on a fantasy cricket site), and none are found for any real cricket team of this name by basic searches: Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL. Any team that had featured so many of the world's top players (many of whose names are obfuscated by minor spelling errors) would have thousands readily available sources. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:16, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions. —Phil Bridger (talk) 18:20, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. -- —SpacemanSpiff 18:31, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete and hopefully a Snow close. The external linking of everything within is itself a giveaway. Both
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