Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Social network poisoning
Also problems with |verifiability. The first ref cites Kevin Mitnick's book "The art of deception" for the definition of "social network engineering," but a search of the book at Amazon does not show any occurrences of the word "poisoning" in the book. (Maybe the search engine got poisoned somehow) Google book search provides http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22Social+network+poisoning%22&num=10 no hits for the specific phrase '''"social network poisoning."''' Neither did http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=social+network+poisoning&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdtf=&as_sdts=14&hl=en Google scholar. It does sound like a grabbag of tricks a hacker could use to subvert social networks. The same article was created at the Italian Wikipedia by user Paganinip on July 9, 2011 http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Social_Network_Poisoning&limit=500&action=history, also as his first edit. The first version in the English Wikipedia was also mostly in Italian. There has been nothing said on the discussion page of that Italian article. It acquired the same list of books as references, without page numbers to allow verification. The techniques described sound quite plausible, and it would be surprising if various schemes to fool or exploit social networking sites had not been implemented, such as bots creating false identities, or real users clicking on false affiliations. We need verification and actual references which can be discussed on the article talk page (or here) rather than original research followed by a bunch of general books on the topic being vaguely waved about as references for very specific statements in the text.  It is not a good way to launch a Wikipedia article. If User:Pananinip still has access to the books he cites, then it should be easy enough to provide the page numbers, and to discuss exactly what the references say, on the article's talk page. Users have expressed this concern to him on his talk page
— User:Edison, 17:55, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:V (Wikipedia:Verifiability)