Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Derek George Smyth
by nominator: {{replyto|Mccapra|AleatoryPonderings|Paul H.}} "Hoax" assertion struck. This is perhaps an cautionary tale about the shortcomings of Wikipedia, about how article deletion and retention is in the hands of lay people - like me - not experts. This article https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Derek_George_Smyth&oldid=977173274 could have been speedily deleted as a hoax. Someone - me - Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Shirt58|with advanced permissions granted by the Wikipedia community decided that it should be discussed here instead, with the now obviously incorrect assertion that it may be a hoax. In the " done" assertion, I pretty much manifestly made the mistake of requesting for Internet-era references. I'm unambiguously  here. so I'll leave it at this. Pete AU aka
— User:Shirt58, 10:13, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: :WP:BEFORE||:WP:INVOLVED (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion)