Deletion of Mark V Shaney

Comment: have added Sci Am citation and another reference from PC-Computing, so article now passes |notability test
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTE)

Comment: This has problems akin to an in-universe article. Mark V Shaney was a Markov chain generator that received coverage in ''Scientific American'', surely a |reliable source, and generates several http://scholar.google.com/scholar?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=mark.v.shaney Google Scholar results as a precursor to other Turing test human conversation programs. It was also a USENET prank, from which its notoriety comes, but treating it as a "Usenet personality" (at least primarily) seems a bit off
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)

Comment: iff reliable, non-trivial sources can be found about the subject.  If such sources cannot be located this should probably be re-nominated for deletion as Wikipedia is  a primary source of information
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)

Comment: The article says that "Mark V Shaney" is a Usenet username and does not assert that "Mark V Shaney" is or was ever a real person.  The article itself does not seem to be a hoax in any way-- it is just reporting of a clever hoax that was perpetrated on Usenet.  And it's an interesting story, but that's not enough to qualify a subject for a Wikipedia article.  But we need some cold hard |reliable sources, not firsthand narratives here.  There's got to be a showing of |notability here, or the article can't stay.  has any publication ever written an article about this hoax?  That's what we desperately need.  For example, there was a hoax on YouTube called lonelygirl15.  It made such an impact on the YouTube users and fooled so many people that it was even reported in newspapers across America.  Show us where something was published, please.  If not, then the article has to go
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS||WP:N)