Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mimsa International Airport

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The result was speedy delete. WP:CSD#G3 blatant hoax. JohnCD (talk) 21:18, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mimsa International Airport

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First, this article is unsourced and so has no evidence of notability. Second, its IATA code of MIA is the same as Miami International Airport, which is suspicious. Robert McClenon (talk) 13:53, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or Speedy delete — Article is terrible right now. I can't convince myself that it really exists. The official website link leads to a page for an airport with a different name. Murph9000 (talk) 14:03, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Article doesn't provide sufficient context, and I'm pretty sure this doesn't meet WP:GNG -- ChamithN (talk) 14:08, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete G3 – seemingly a hoax. I can't find any references online to this airport's existence, and as the nominator pointed out the IATA code MIA is that of Miami International Airport. The image is actually of Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport. Also, is Dhuri really big enough to have two airports as claimed? _└^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 14:37, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's also worth noting that Rajomajra Airport, linked from this article as Dhuri's first airport, was deleted as a hoax last October. _└^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 14:45, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete - Google search does not provide any information on such an airport, and one would expect any airport to at least show some Google hits. What's more, one search result points to the speedydeletionwiki copy of Dhuri Metro, which was speedily deleted by SpacemanSpiff as G3/hoax back in October. The coordinates on the page and the external link belong to Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport, also in Punjab but not the same city. The only thing I can see which may not be a mirror is this website. Also what UkPaolo said.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:40, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Follow up: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ravikiran singh is live, as the account which made this article may be part of an earlier hoaxing attempt.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:13, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - if this is a hoax, it should also be deleted from List of airports in India - Dhuri has currently 4 (!) airports in this list, including this one, and Rajomajra Airport from October is still on this list too. GermanJoe (talk) 15:05, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
If you review the recent edit history for the list, the entirety of it probably needs detailed fact checking, and maybe even all of the airports linked from it as well. Murph9000 (talk) 15:14, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Most of the damage has been reverted by David Biddulph (talk · contribs) and I, but a second double-check of the whole list would certainly be helpful. GermanJoe (talk) 15:47, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It looks as if the vandalism goes back as least as far as this edit in November and continued with various IPs subsequently. I was in the process of trying to tidy it up when GermanJoe (talk · contribs) did the same. Hopefully it's picked up the bulk of the problems. - David Biddulph (talk) 15:58, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I now see that the vandalism went back further, at least to Special:Contributions/Ravikiran_singh in October. It was reverted on various occasions, but reinserted by subsequent IPs. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:14, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Evidence — Courtesy of one of the copyvio tags on Commons at c:File:Area of mimsa international airport.jpg. The image of the terminal building is apparently from Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport.[1] Already mentioned above, but here's the specific image. Murph9000 (talk) 15:29, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per all the above, hoax. The geo-co-ords are the same as Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport too (which does exist and can be seen on Google maps). Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 17:53, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Looks like a hoax. A major airport serving an Indian town with a population under 5,000 being a hub for Air Canada? Cute.--Oakshade (talk) 20:53, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and I would've tagged for speedy but browsers actually found a few links which, although still questionable, may at least suggest this may exist but is not clearly known. Delete for now, SwisterTwister talk 03:31, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete, please, and also delete File:Mimsa International Airport logo.png. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 17:54, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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.