Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Crabtree (fictional polymath)
UCL and the Crabtree Foundation are entitled to their in-joke, but Wikipedia is not here to help them spread it. The article was originated and has been largely maintained by two near |SPAs, {{user|Drbrizzle}} and {{user|JoeCrabtree}}. It was originated by Drbrizzle in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Crabtree_(fictional_polymath)&oldid=190913026 this version, which was a hoax presenting Crabtree as real (the word "fictional" was not added to the title until https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Crabtree_(fictional_polymath)&diff=539880035&oldid=539431030 2013); and even when forced to admit that is fiction, he is https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Crabtree_(fictional_polymath)&diff=632835271&oldid=632834997 still trying to resist the substitution of "invented" for "revealed" in the lead sentence. If we are to have an article at all, it should be more like WikiDan's version, but I agree with John Blackburne - it is an academic in-joke, a long-running one and not a bad one, but it has not produced the level of independent comment that would constitute |notability
— User:JohnCD, 20:54, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:SPA||WP:N (Wikipedia:Single-purpose account)