Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Road signs in Egypt

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The result was : Speedily deleted - hoax. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 07:40, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Road signs in Egypt

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This article is un-sourced, and contains extremely dubious road signs, specifically those related to skiing and snow chains. In light of the signs that are extremely unlikely to actually be from Egypt, and the overall lack of sources for this article, I believe it should be deleted as misinformation. Monty ₈₄₅ 18:58, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Egypt-related deletion discussions. — I, Jethrobot ^{drop me a line} 19:04, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete as hoax, or just plain wrong. Unfortunately the official ministry of information website is down but even without it there is an even bigger clue than the presence of reindeer and snow chains. The script! If a deliberate hoax it is particularly inept. --AJHingston (talk) 20:46, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The editor also created these Road signs in Iran, Road signs in Japan, Road signs in Poland. There was also Road signs in Azerbaijan but it is now a redirect to Traffic sign - frankie (talk) 21:37, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed the Japan article, and on reviewing the others I don't see the smoking gun signs as there were in the Egypt one I nominated, though the whole lot is a bit suspicious. Monty ₈₄₅ 01:27, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I see a lot of vandalism in articles related to traffic signs by a variety of editors including User:Santapo, some IPs (such as 96.233.62.147 and 180.216.38.66). Example: "spode limo" sign. That one was rather obviously made-up Portuguese, but as these articles are totally unsourced, it is not easy to check what is correct information and what is a non-obvious hoax. --Lambiam 10:56, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: the user created none of these articles, with the exception of Road signs in Azerbaijan. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 08:05, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. For the most part, these signs seem to be pretty much standard road signs used in many countries. How are these signs unique to Egypt? I tend towards delete unless these are shown to be unique. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 22:21, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. All the sign images that I checked are claimed to be in the public domain because they are Swedish road signs created by the Swedish Transport Administration for which no copyright claim is made. No doubt if the Egyptian government wanted to start using them, they could, but no evidence has been provided that these signs are used in Egypt or anywhere nearby. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 23:31, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is actually an international convention on road signs but Egypt is not listed as a party. However, the official Egyptian website is now back up, which removes any doubt - the article is a hoax or wrong --AJHingston (talk) 23:38, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.