Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Heat Is On (TV series)

The Heat Is On (TV series)

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Hoax. This series never existed. There is a similarly named one-off show — Sport Relief: The Heat is On — but that is completely unrelated. The single reference in the article is circular: the article dates from 2005; the reference dates from 2008 and is obviously based on the Wikipedia hoax article. — TREY MATURIN has spoken 00:52, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Delete as a blatant hoax (WP:G3). Not seeing any sources that mention this before the article's creation in 2005. gobonobo ⁺ ^c 01:20, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy was already declined by EurekaLott. — TREY MATURIN has spoken 01:27, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
That decline was clearly invalid. This is so blatantly a hoax. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:09, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, per nom, seems like a hoax. Will be longest a hoax article has existed in WP, WP:HOAXLIST. Thanks, Indagate (talk) 08:21, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television and United Kingdom. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:22, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and preserve at the hoax museum. 17 years is a new record. It’s staggering that this flew under the radar for that long. Even the Teresa of Jesus, Child hoax (which I successfully AfD’d) circulated for less time and was added in good faith.

Who knows how many other hoaxes slipped through the cracks in or before 2005 and are still waiting to be exposed? 00sClassicGamerFan (talk) 16:53, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]