Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zebediah Dingle
as hoax. This character ''may'' exist in the fictional Emmerdale universe, in the sense of having been mentioned; but there is no |reliable source even for that, still less that he ever actually appeared, and so he falls far short of the |notability required to have an article, even if there were reliable sources on which to base one. The details in the article are certainly false: it is inconceivable that if the character had been a full-time regular for years there would be no mention of him in IMDb and so little on the internet generally (compare the results of a Findsources search for him and for any of the real characters); and while IMDb has two George Keegans, neither of their CVs mentions Emmerdale. The article author's only other contribution was an undoubted, deliberate hoax, complete with falsified illustration
— User:JohnCD, 12:11, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:N (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)