Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canadian Hoaxes
per  and . While it's true that Canada ''has'' a lot of sparsely-populated wilderness, for one thing, the vast majority of Canadian people actually do live in real honest-to-goodness towns and cities where there's actually real honest-to-goodness ''stuff'' to do besides sitting around making shit up for kicks — so we'd need real |reliable sourcing to |verify the claim that Canada is prone to an unusually large number of hoaxes, rather than relying on an unsourced assertion that smacks of |POV theorizing. And I doubly love the fact that the creator isn't even accurately reading the few sources they are citing — the "Coleman Frog", according to the source, was found in 1885 in a "Killarney Lake" near Fredericton, New Brunswick, but the creator wrongly placed the discovery in Killarney Lakelands and Headwaters Provincial Park — which is in ''Ontario'', not New Brunswick, and didn't exist until 2006. Any of these three items ''might'' qualify for a ''standalone'' article, if they can be properly sourced — but wrapping them up into a POV ''essay'' about a purported tendency to hoaxery as some kind of ''uniquely'' Canadian phenomenon (as if every populated country on earth didn't also have dozens or hundreds of its own hoaxes and folklore items too) isn't the way to get them in here
— User:Bearcat, 18:26, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOR||WP:SYNTH||WP:RS||WP:V||WP:NPOV (Wikipedia:No original research)