Carcharoth schreef:
The reason for this is that a seven-day discussion is more likely to get the "right" answer in the case of seemingly "obvious" hoaxes that are in fact true, but with reliable sources that it takes time to look up. Also, it takes time for enough eyes to read a deletion discussion for the person who knows where to look for the obscure source to confirm something, to turn up (a week in the case of AfD).
This applies more to articles where people are guessing something must be a hoax (and not finding anything confirming it is true), rather than articles where a reliable sources confirms it is a hoax.
On the other hand, if there are reliable sources that confirm it's a hoax, there is a chance that the hoax itself is notable. In which case, the article could also be kept (and state that it is a hoax, of course).
This too is best discussed at a 7-day AfD.
Eugene