Steve Bennett wrote:
On 5/15/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
Vanity isn't, but non-notable biography is, as is patent nonsense. If John Q. Highschoolstudent writes a vanity page, it'll say (in general terms) one of the following:
- John Q. Highschoolstudent is on the track team and plays a mean
game of Halo. 2. John Q. Highschoolstudent won the NBA Slam Dunk Competition in 2006.
1 is non-notable bio, 2 is patent nonsense. Those two CSD's alone are the vanity fork--almost all vanity articles will fall within at least one of tehm.
What is: 3. John Q. Highschoolstudent is a brilliant basketballer and has made numerous appearences on TV.
Presume that we can't find any google references to back this up. Presume (debatable) for the sake of argument that if the claim is true, this is notable enough. Do we classify it as unverifiable? Do we call it hoax? Is it still vanity, whatever that means?
"Appeared on TV" is verifiable, so it's not patent nonsense. However, provided it's not a hoax, [[WP:HOLE]] applies.