Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Icingtons

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:26, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Icingtons[edit]

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I can find no evidence this term is actually in use. Both references are not for the actual subject of the article. Google returns basically nothing. Google books returns nothing relevant. Best I can tell this is not a real thing. Broken Segue 01:35, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

delete this does appear to be a hoax. Simply nothing other than a few social media mentions, a cake shop in New Zealand that uses it in the name, etc. The article currently has two sources:

searching in Google Books[1] version of Cinderella Dreams for the term yields no result
searching for the term in the Sugarpaste reference yields no hit[2] - even if this is a failing of OCR if it was used a few times I think we'd see it

Oblivy (talk) 03:02, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Food and drink and France. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:35, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and add to WP:HOAXLIST: An IP editor who claims to be the page creator said it was likely a hoax: [3] Helpful Raccoon (talk) 05:08, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article is 16 years old, making it quite a long-lasting hoax. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 18:28, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

a 16-year old hoax is still a hoax!! albeit a believable one. Delete. FlyingScotsman72 (talk) 08:18, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies if that came off as sarcastic, I was genuinely remarking on how long the hoax existed. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 23:47, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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