Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Tennisuser123/Hemisphere Airlines

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

The result of the discussion was: delete. ✗plicit 00:44, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

User:Tennisuser123/Hemisphere Airlines

This is a hoax and so unlikely to be useful for the project per WP:UP#GOALS and WP:FAKEARTICLE. The US doesn't have a flag carrier (it does have three primary airlines but they are not flag carriers). It most definitely does not have an airline named Hemisphere Airlines.

I would understand if the page were being used to test infoboxes, wikitables, or article writing. I'm also aware that we generally give wide latitude to pages in userspace. However, per WP:FAKEARTICLE, "Userspace is not a free web host and should not be used to indefinitely host pages that look like articles ... Actual fake articles should be deleted as incompatible with the purpose of the project."

There seems to be a not-insubstantial amount of prose devoted to the destinations and fleet of this fictitious airline. It contains fake statistics like "Hemisphere and its subsidiaries employ 70,000 people worldwide. The airline reported $17.2 billion in annual revenue in 2017 and consistently places on the S&P 500 Index. The airline transports over 16 million passengers per year, averaging approximately 380,000 passengers per day, or approximately 13.8 million per year." These statistics are easily debunked by a quick search online. Since this user subpage exclusively contains information about a fictitious airline, I believe this falls under WP:FAKEARTICLE. Epicgenius (talk) 22:28, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fiction presented as fact is never ok. We quickly delete fictitious history pages. This looks no different. One thing different is the user has a long history of contribution. Maybe they can explain? SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:52, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as a fake article and as a hoax, without commenting on whether it is an obvious hoax calling for G3, but both obvious and unobvious hoaxes can be deleted at XFD. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:49, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a WP:FAKEARTICLE. Not sure what the users objective was here. WikiVirusC^(talk) 15:41, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note The user has similar subpages like User:Tennisuser123/Global Space Station and User:Tennisuser123/2017 Vodafone Open Gibraltar concerning fictitious matters. I believe the user was simply practicing article writing - Hemisphere Airlines was for the purpose of general article writing, the 2017 Gibraltar Open was for the purpose of practicing tennis brackets, and Global Space Station was for practicing tables. The user also appears to be inactive on Wikipedia, you will notice a little message he put at the top of the article that indicates it, so we probably won't hear from them. This appears to be simple practice rather than a bad-faith attempt at creating WP:HOAXES. (JayPlaysStuff | talk to me | What I've been up to) 14:22, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This may well be the case, which is why I haven't nominated the Global Space Station or Gibraltar Open subpages for MFD. However, I specifically nominated the Hemisphere Airlines page because there wasn't any indication that the page was being used as a sandbox. By contrast, the existence of User:Tennisuser123/Aviation Sandbox does indicate that the user was practicing article writing there; while it is also about a fake airline, I did not touch that page since it is clearly a sandbox.
I also don't think Hemisphere was intended solely as a sandbox, since the user also uploaded File:Hemisphere Airlines logo.png to Commons. This is more consistent with the behavior of someone who is intending to write an actual article or draft. Excluding this sandbox, the logo is not used anywhere else on Wikipedia or on other Wikimedia projects. – Epicgenius (talk) 20:50, 21 June 2022 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.