Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/666 B.C.

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The result was SPEEDY REDIRECT. Clearly not worthwhile content, but we may as well redirect it to the real content. Barberio (talk) 12:28, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

666 B.C.

Not sure of what to make of this. At first I thought it was vandalism (and deleted it as such.) Then I checked the names-- and they are close enough that I just demonstrated my ignorance. I think it's a hoax, but now I'm not sure. Rewrite and formatting are desperately needed if it is kept. Dloh cierekim 03:03, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Delete as a hoax. Nothing scholarly uses B.C. in the last several decades--BCE is preferred. Nor are most dates in the 7th century BCE asserted that precisely. Heck, we can't even decide if the fall of Jerusalem was in 587 or 586. That, and the perpetually interesting 666 lead me to believe this is almost certainly a hoax. Jclemens (talk) 03:09, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I though of that. But we seem to be using "BC" instead of "BCE". See 600s BC. Not sure why we aren't using BCE. Alright, I'm clueless as to why. Dloh cierekim 03:26, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as a mess confected from a copyvio of this page (paragraph about halfway down the page), a passage lifted without credit from this book, and an old version of the lead in our article Chronology of the ancient Near East. Deor (talk) 03:23, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK. So I was wrong about the hoax. Dloh cierekim 03:28, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete Copy-paste mess. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 04:41, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Either hoax or nonsense, or perhaps both? MadScot666 (talk) 04:50, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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