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The Google News sources might be worth looking into, but the existing sources (which are great to verify facts) are not the sort of sources to establish notability because the organizations doing the reporting there list pretty much any virus they find in their database, regardless of how much
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mentions that this hoax made the rounds twice in one year, and caused a loss of productivity. Multiple independent sources written specifically about the topic...that meets
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effects it actually had. (Just like IMDB doesn't help to establish notability for actors or films because they list anything they can get their hands on) =
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kept, and even then it's only a "no consensus". I know that that's irrelevant to this article, but I had to get it off my chest.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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hoaxes are acceptable, and this definitely reads like an article about a notable hoax covered by 3 independent
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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included then we don't need to go out of our way to keep this sort of wikicruft around. Accordingly I'd cite
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an article about a town where people live out their whole lives and which has coverage in over 100 books
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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This article does not establish notability of the subject of the article.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion
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Juliancolton


02:46, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Olympic Torch (virus hoax)
Olympic Torch (virus hoax)
edit
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Unionsoap
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14:03, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
JulesH
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16:10, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
WP:HOAX
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KuyaBriBri
20:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

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