Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CW 24 News

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The result was speedy delete‎. CSD G5 Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:27, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

CW 24 News

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CW 24 News doesn't exist. Its existence is fabricated on several global Wikipedia and Wikiquote national pages, by two users (sock puppets or meat puppets) GQO and Beach Mirco Viejo and a few IP addresses (196.135.135.177, 154.187.210.6, 196.150.237.159, 196.135.169.232, 196.150.148.109, 154.189.72.22), since May 2024. Even the CW24News.com domain has only been established in April 2024 (for a newspaper that supposedly exists since 1973 and was co-founded by Anwar Sadat. All of the links and supporting info turned out to be nonsense. The cw24news.com website looks pretty real, until you see that it was created in Wordpress, and that the social media links are all phony (going to the template creator). Also: the Media Ownership Monitor doesn't show CW 24 News ownership by Egypt Media Group. Note also that there are a number of "CW 24 News" "logos" in Commons that seem to be completely made up by these perpetrators. I realize that this is cross-wiki spam, but I don't know how to easily make this into a cross-wiki "case". Any help in this respect will be appreciated. _W^\|/_haledad (Talk to me) 20:30, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: News media and Egypt. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 21:04, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Welcome, I actually created this article I added secondary sources and information from the memory sites of the attached site. Search in those formulas and see the result of this search -en- (CW24 News) --------------------search - ar - (سي دبليو 24 أخبار)

CW24 News (Arabic: سي دبليو 24 أخبار)

(GQO (talk) 23:13, 8 June 2024 (UTC))

• Delete possible hoax. The Egyptian cw24news dot com was created this year.[1] The domain name was previously an unrelated Bangladesh news site. The BBC's Egyptian media guide does not mention it.[2] The Library of Congress guide does not mention it.[3] The FeedSpot news aggregator does not list it.[4] The biography of Anwar Sadat: Visionary Who Dared does not mention it.[5] Anwar Sadat's autobiography In Search of Identity does not mention it, even though it does mention the unrelated al-Gumhuriah (The Republic) that Sadat founded and briefly edited in the 50s (p. 136).[6] Even if it is not a hoax, it would not meet the notability threshold without any coverage in WP:RS. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 00:28, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

  A note: view the source code of my post for html comments to see the archive.org link to the old website. Wikipedia's blacklist prevented me from including a linked url containing "CW24news.com". Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 00:30, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

• Delete. Obvious spam/hoax. And, imo, you can add Mahmushij and Paula Fenness to that list of sock puppets. MLTRock (talk) 02:43, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
• Question. According to Wikidata there are a total of 11 Wikipedia and 3 Wikiquote pages across the languages. Looking at the history page of the Wikidata entry, some were removed early May and recreated afterwards. Is there an easy way to address all language versions? _W^\|/_haledad (Talk to me) 16:57, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete: Given that this is now a proved cross-wiki hoax, and the sock puppets have all been globally banned, I think this now qualifies for speedy deletion. _W^\|/_haledad (Talk to me) 17:36, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
• ? Who is the master account of this farm? Yann (talk) 15:53, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
  • The Meta entry listed three possible master accounts: AZ112233, M_W_T_WMV, Ahmed_brens. _W^\|/_haledad (Talk to me) 16:04, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

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