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The result was Speedy delete per WP:CSD#G3 by Yunshui (talk · contribs). GiantSnowman 13:53, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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PROD contested by article creator, no reason given. Article was previously deleted by PROD. Fails WP:GNG (no significant coverage) and WP:NFOOTBALL (hasn't played in a fully-pro league or at senior international level). This reminds me of this AFD. GiantSnowman 18:36, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete - per nom, coverage extends only to routine transfer comment. Fenix down (talk) 12:17, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy delete as blatant hoax. What coverage? What routine transfer comment? He only exists on twitter/youtube/facebook. He's not mentioned in the media at all, in connection with any of the clubs he's supposed to have been involved with or in any other connection. The only mention is on givemesport.com, a news recycling site of dubious quality, whose "writer" was either fooled into doing the piece by Karan and his mates, or (more likely) actually is one of his mates. The only other live link in the article, that purports to be a 2011 Sky Sports piece entitled New York Cosmos Pick Singh from Draft, actually points to the 2014 Seattle Times Sounders FC blog piece called Report: Whitecaps draft pick Andre Lewis signs with New York Cosmos of NASL. The other links are equally nonsense. Hoax. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 12:54, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• @Struway2: what's your opinion on this, the only thing I could find that isn't social media? GiantSnowman 12:58, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• See now-italicised sentence above. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 13:00, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• A link to givemesport.com's "Join the Writing Academy" page :-) cheers, Struway2 (talk) 13:03, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Aha, thanks for clarifying. You might want to add a hoax CSD tag ({{db-hoax}}) to the article for an uninvolved admin to review. GiantSnowman 13:11, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• I've done that. Also noticed that the infobox allocates him a QPR squad number. Impressive that someone could have got a squad number for the highest profile football team outside the Premier League without the media being aware of his existence. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 13:22, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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