- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was delete. --Bongwarrior (talk) 01:20, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Showera (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)
- Is this article noteworthy? Is it true? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete In a word, No - Hoax. Unreferenced, no hits on academic databases, googling "Showera shona -showers -shower" returns 5 hits, none relevant. Debate (talk) 14:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, unfortunately. The creator claims to be Zimbabwean; none of his edits I looked at appeared overtly bad faith and most seem to have been made with the intention of improving articles, not introducing hoaxes. However: no refs, no ghits, no notability assertion. I suspect the superstition around the phenomenon does exist in his part of the world, but either this is not the way it's commonly referred to, or it's very localised indeed. Either way, it's not verifiable, and it's creating equally unverifiable mirrors. [1] --Karenjc 15:08, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - per user:Debate while assuming good faith. -- GarbageCollection - !Collect 17:13, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete no references, couldn't find anything online Magnetawan (talk) 19:40, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - Without references. NCurse work 08:47, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 23:13, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 23:14, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, hoax. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:14, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as unverifiable. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 18:27, 5 June 2008 (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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.