Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sony's Creation: The Legit Version

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The result was delete per my comments below. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 03:22, 20 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sony's Creation: The Legit Version

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Per this comment, this entire page is allegedly a satirical piece for a school assignment. There's nothing sourced and nothing useful here. At best, it could be moved to draftspace but I'm moving to delete as inappropriate. Ricky81682 (talk) 20:46, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Normally I'm all for saving student assignments somewhere, but this is completely inappropriate, both as an article and as an assignment. This could probably be speedied as blatant vandalism, since either way (as a student joke or teacher assignment) this is clearly meant to be a non-useful article. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 06:17, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:34, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

~~This would seem to be complete tripe. Why was it de-speedied?~~ I've deletion sorted it, so as to get some daylight on this student assignment. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:35, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I stand corrected. The article does not seem to have been made up and Afd does seem to be the correct venue. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:22, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:36, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I don't know if it is satire, but at first glance it does look like a referenced article comparing histories of Sony in terms of their legitimacy. But I don't see why this needs a different article when there's already an article History of Sony. Perhaps there could be a merge of some of this information, but it would take considerable effort. It's hard to trust an article that the first author calls satire that he wants deleted once it is completed. Michitaro (talk) 16:57, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I'm going to go ahead and just delete this, since I don't see it closing any other way. Given that the editor has openly stated that the article is satire, we can't trust any of this to be true and it'd take a lot of work to verify the content - assuming that any of it is usable. I'm extremely disappointed in both the student and the editor, since this is not how you're supposed to use Wikipedia as an educational assignment. All I can hope is that the teacher does see this and will refrain from letting their students to vandalize Wikipedia as part of an educational assignment. On the talk page the student claimed that the teacher didn't specifically ask for this, but at some level the teacher had to have been asking for some sort of vandalism for this to be a graded assignment. Fair warning to the student: if this happens again you run a very serious risk of getting blocked from editing, as purposeful vandalizing is not acceptable on Wikipedia, for a grade or otherwise. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 03:20, 20 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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