Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elio Daou

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The result was delete Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:20, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Elio Daou

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Factualness queried. If this is fiction, there is no bibliographic info. Whole aspect and the style of the names looks wrong. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:37, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Strong Delete - complete hoax, none of the sources that I checked have anything about this "gladiator" who lived 200 years before the first gladiators. Smmurphy^(Talk) 02:47, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete. Looks like a hoax to me. Some modern people are named Elio Daou. Eliojah Daan is plausible for the period, but would be more of an Israelite name - but due to Tribe of Dan and the double-Theophoric name using the Israelite form (El (deity) + Theophory in the Bible#Yah theophory. Phoenicians would be more likely to be using Baal (as in Hannibal) and a few other suffixes. I don't see sources for this, and some other details do not add up - e.g. the gladiatorial aspect and being the Butcher of Kallas - Kallas seeming to be used in Estonia. Ziyad (a common modern day (and post Islam) Arabic name) would be a highly unlikely name for his father.Icewhiz (talk) 09:45, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Snow delete as failing WP:V. As an example, even the title of the citation for the book "Who's Who in the Greek World" has been changed to "Who's Who in the Persian World" and links to a random unrelated page [1]. 24.151.116.12 (talk) 17:10, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete - as noted above all of the evidence points to this being a hoax. Aside from the problems identified above it is highly unlikely that any sources from the time would reveal some of the details here or that subsequent scholars would speculate on them (eg that his wife was childless as she had ovarian cancer) Dunarc (talk) 20:56, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As hoax. None of the references check out. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:31, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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