Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quinton Caruthers
can anyone confirm whether it is appropriate to delete unsourced material immediately (while the article is going through AfD)? I am not sure whether this is good practice or not. The links in the article just go to search pages with zero results so if these were removed it would make it more obvious to the casual observer that there are no sources in the article. This is clearly (in my opinion) a hoax in the general sense but maybe it is not a hoax by wikipedia standards as the name used is that of a real contestant from an American TV show (however the associated album articles do seem to satisfy  because the albums do not exist). In that case I still believe that the article should be deleted because the subject is not notable, he appeared briefly on a TV show, does not appear to have done anything notable since (as all of the other information in the article is made up and the photo is probably of someone else as shown by the myspace page linked to). I don't know whether this means that the article has to go through AfD again with  as the reason. Either way I don't see how anyone can justify keeping this article in the long term (unless they believe that being unsuccessful in an unsuccessful TV show makes the subject notable
— User:Mah, 17:13, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:HOAX||WP:N (Wikipedia:Do not create hoaxes)