Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Embe

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. — Aitias // discussion 11:44, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Embe

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Unverifiable "secret society" symbol, very likely a hoax or made up. The content is only supported by the non-reliable website http://www.dotheyexist.com by one "Dr. Fritz Carlton" whom I'll also nominate for AfD; the cited book "A Comparative Study of Thirty City-state Cultures" does not seem to include any information about this subject at all.  Sandstein  21:12, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

• Delete. I'm unable to find any independent sources for this at all. Fails WP:V. Deor (talk) 22:15, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
• Delete Unverified at best, very likely a hoax. Edward321 (talk) 00:55, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
• DeleteBlatant WP:BOLLOCKS. Only references to this "mark of reincarnation" is a blog and a website covering what is clearly a fringe theory. No gsearch results indicate any secondary coverage of this. And it's almost certainly a hoax, what with photos of a secret conspiracy group with clearly visible tattoos on their hands. Uh, yeah. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 02:30, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
• Delete Comment. Two of the photographs accompanying the article (File:Raucher1.JPG, File:EmbeTattoofromUlrichstriptoZurich.jpg), uploaded to Commons by the article's author, are somewhat dubious. Upon viewing the photos at the maximum enlargement possible in Firefox, the supposed tattoos appear as though they were photoshopped into the image. If the photographs are faked, then clearly the entire article is fake. You be the judge. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 21:32, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
  • Changed my "comment" above to "delete". This is apparently not a hoax, but a fringe theory lacking third-party reliable sources.

Three references are cited in this article:

1. The Reincarnationist Papers is a book that the author, D. Eric Maikranz, is trying to have published, seemingly without success. On his website [1] he publicly offers a reward to anyone who can get his book published.
2. A Wikipedia article Coat of arms of Bulgaria, which does not discuss the embe.
3. A Comparative Study of Thirty City-state Cultures by Mogens Herman Hansen is a Google Book. The term embe was not found in a text search of the book

•••Life of Riley (T–C) 21:17, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.