Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Tennisuser123/Levittown Branch

User:Tennisuser123/Levittown Branch

User:Tennisuser123/Levittown Branch (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)​

This is a hoax and so unlikely to be useful for the project per WP:UP#GOALS and WP:FAKEARTICLE. The Long Island Rail Road has no such branch. The stretch of railroad in question is described as Central Railroad of Long Island#Garden City–Mitchel Field Secondary - it is a freight line, not a passenger branch.

I would understand if the page were being used to test infoboxes, wikitables, or article writing. I'm also aware that we generally give wide latitude to pages in userspace.

However, per WP:FAKEARTICLE, "Userspace is not a free web host and should not be used to indefinitely host pages that look like articles ... Actual fake articles should be deleted as incompatible with the purpose of the project." Since the track in question has no stations and is a freight line, statements like "Currently, the Levittown Branch is the sixth-busiest on the LIRR, serving over 20,000 passengers daily and over 7.3 million annually, with ridership up by 6.8% since 2007" evidently cannot be true. This user subpage has been around for five years without any edits and, since it mainly contains information about a fictitious passenger railroad branch, I believe this falls under WP:FAKEARTICLE. Epicgenius (talk) 22:07, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

• Weak Delete as a fake article and a hoax. Weak delete only because I have not tried to verify the truth or falsehood of the page and am relying on the statement by the nominator. If the originator wants to keep it, they can add references, which are not normally required in a user page draft (and the references may be verifiable or unverifiable). Robert McClenon (talk) 14:31, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

  I see your point. It is unfortunately difficult to prove the absence of something, especially if it's relatively obscure. – Epicgenius (talk) 16:36, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

• Delete. I can confirm that no such branch exists; the right of way is in fact abandoned between the freight spur in Garden City and BETH interlocking in Farmingdale [1], and there are no concrete proposals to reactivate this segment. True, it's not a blatant hoax in mainspace, though Wikipedia is not the place for such "fantasies" (WP:FAKEARTICLE, WP:NOTWEBHOST). ComplexRational (talk) 19:37, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
• Note The user has similar subpages like User:Tennisuser123/Global Space Station and User:Tennisuser123/2017 Vodafone Open Gibraltar concerning fictitious matters. I believe the user was simply practicing article writing - Levitown Branch was for the purpose of general article writing, the 2017 Gibraltar Open was for the purpose of practicing tennis brackets, and Global Space Station was for practicing tables. The user also appears to be inactive on Wikipedia, you will notice a little message he put at the top of the article that indicates it, so we probably won't hear from them. This appears to be simple practice rather than a bad-faith attempt at creating WP:HOAXES. (JayPlaysStuff | talk to me | What I've been up to) 14:22, 21 June 2022 (UTC)