Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Program for Monetary Reform: Difference between revisions
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*'''Comment''' Why do you believe it's a hoax? Did some research on it and haven't found anyone disputing it, in fact found a journal article possibly mentioning it: [http://www.jstor.org/stable/725805?origin=JSTOR-pdf] [[User:SportingFlyer|SportingFlyer]] ([[User talk:SportingFlyer|talk]]) 23:10, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
::Nobody's disputing it because the article is not real. Academics don't cite or discuss fake articles. The story that this is a key policy document written by one of the top economists of his day, Fisher, but never published and never cited until this mysterious copy showed up -- ostensibly from a single obscure library -- strains credulity. Hundreds of University libraries would have retained copies of a significant document by eminent monetary economist Fisher. And the context in which it was "discovered" is to bolster a fringe activist campaign. Not in the course of research, library cataloguing, or any other plausible routine. Note that there has been discussion of 100% reserve banking from time to time, including by Fisher. But that is not the same as the claim as to the existence or content of this article. [[User:SPECIFICO |<b style="color: #0011FF;"> SPECIFICO</b>]][[User_talk:SPECIFICO | ''talk'']] 02:33, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
:::Here, from 1993 (before all this got started), page 714: [http://www.greytrek.com/IrvingFisher.pdf] (note the citations) Also here from 1996: [https://books.google.com/books?id=xdk_r5Q-GvwC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=%22a+program+for+monetary+reform%22+fisher&source=bl&ots=uywUOakl30&sig=AhCfcqspNp5u1EXVphHISEweDZI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiE4c6LxL3ZAhXK24MKHbVJBkM4ChDoAQgpMAE#v=onepage&q=%22a%20program%20for%20monetary%20reform%22%20fisher&f=false] The dates are important since the sources show this was "found" by the guy mentioned in the article around 1995. I don't think it's fake, but I do think it's been blown out of proportion. Not sure what to recommend on deletion grounds. [[User:SportingFlyer|SportingFlyer]] ([[User talk:SportingFlyer|talk]]) 02:53, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
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