Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Epacawani

Epacawani was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE

I did some fairly extensive research on this because the article confused the heck out of me. It appears to be an old copy of the Tsimshian article with the name changed and some minor stuff added. Searching the web for information on this term returns only copies of the article and links to it. I researched at the local university library and hunted through the online world library book and article catalogs and could find absolutely nothing that referred to this term. I checked with the lists of First Nations that are available from Canadian tribal organizations, Canadian museums, and some other centers of authoritative information, and none make mention of such a tribe or people, or indeed mention the tern at all. There is some mention on the Algonquian article, but the Talk page for it leads me to believe that this is more perpetuated confusion. I'm no expert on the Algonquian, but I know Tsimshian people and a good bit about their history and culture. The article's content is both superfluous (it's already better and more correctly documented in the Tsimshian article) and also factually incorrect (no Tsimshian people have ever been known by this name). Whoever added this was misinformed about the topic. The article should be deleted. — Ts'éiyoosh 20:19, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Delete bvy all means necessary! This Epacawani guy not only added a load of verifiably false information to Algonquian and several related articles, but also re-added it several months later, assigning different (and equally false) meanings to all the random neologisms s/he had thrown in. Also delete Teacha'Chi and Yematasi, and anything else this person came up with. See Talk:Algonquian for more ranting. - Mustafaa 20:37, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Delete those other two pages mentioned by Mustafaa, they're currently redirects whose existence is misleading. — Ts'éiyoosh 03:34, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Delete. Hoax. — Gwalla | Talk 03:02, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Inheirently incorrect / misleading. --L33tminion | (talk) 18:47, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

• Misinformed, or deliberately planting crap...kill it. Delete. Though when I Googled, I was highly amused by the reference to the "Inuit-Aleut-Epacawani" language family which appeared on a Wikipedia mirror. Um, that's a new one on me. Before deleting, make sure any article that still links to Epacawani has that bullshit stripped out. Bearcat 23:10, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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