Wikipedia talk:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Emerson LaSalle
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All of the information about LaSalle has been updated with fact divided (and noted) from fiction. --Fedora 27 (talk) 23:18, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
For those reviewing this page, it should be recognized as fancruft or blogcruft pertaining to the fictional character of Emmerson LaSalle.--Fedora 27 (talk) 09:18, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
The article should not be removed. Emerson LaSalle is of the public interest. If the facts listed on this page do not match credible citations and sources, they should be updated accordingly. The story of Emerson LaSalle, whether accurate to historical facts, or not, has been developed as a screenplay and recently optioned by a motion picture producer, as recently announced by several credible media outlets including CRIMESPREE magazine.[1] --Fedora 27 (talk) 08:52, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
The article is a hoax. None of the books listed as by LaSalle were ever published. [citation needed] LaSalle was never nominated for a Nebula award. [citation needed] The books in the references section never existed.[citation needed] Sjlewis (talk) 05:45, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
- You've just requested proof of nonexistence, which is pretty much a textbook definition of a logical fallacy. This is the best joke on the page, well done! Flopsy Mopsy and Cottonmouth (talk) 18:01, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
- I'll play along, and show my sources. I won't bother showing a link for every failed search, but Fedora 27 is welcome — nay, encouraged! — to do so (Fedora 27, n.b.: Since early mass-market paperbacks were poorly documented, you should check all of the sources below. And since any number of LaSalle's books may have been published under noms de plume (which would not appear under an author search for "LaSalle"), you had best search by title (and to be thorough, you must look for every title in every source, of course).). No Nebula: by author, by title. No references: LOC. Nothing by LaSalle: LOC again; worldcat, which covers almost all United States college libraries and many of the public ones; the Eaton Collection, the largest specialized sf library in the U.S.; and isfdb, the most thorough sf bibliography. (For extra credit, you can search in the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.) Sjlewis (talk) 01:51, 28 February 2009 (UTC)