Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jason Burks

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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 09:41, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jason Burks

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I suspect this article is a hoax; I can find no mention of this individual. It's been out there since '07. Vrac (talk) 01:17, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per nomination, appears to be a hoax. -War wizard90 (talk) 03:20, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above and archive to Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia. I can find absolutely nothing to show that this person exists. Normally with some hackers there would be some sort of chatter somewhere, either in reliable sources or at least in some of the non-usable sources (message boards and so on). I can't see where any of that exists, which means that either this person was extremely good at covering their tracks (leaving it up to a friend to make a memorial page) or more likely, the person just doesn't exist and this was a joke page someone threw together. The claims in this are pretty outrageous: the guy managed to hack into an office mainframe and release a virus, he wrote a type of virus programming that is being studied in universities throughout the USA, he reportedly got into the NSA's database, and he was part of a civilian-only special forces unit. These are some pretty large claims and it's highly, highly unlikely that someone with that sort of background wouldn't be written about somewhere. All I can find are mirrors of this Wikipedia site or people quoting it verbatim. No posts about him in reliable sources, no posts about him in various forums, nothing. You'd think that if the guy existed there'd be at least one news story or hacker blog that mentioned him, but there isn't. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:21, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Good thing it only took us 8 years to realize it. I guess there are always a few that will slip through the cracks. -War wizard90 (talk) 05:11, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, per Tokyogirl, per everything. Thought I'd turn on Highbeam for this one. Precisely 0 results across all time for the relatively basic search term "Jason Burks" v00d00 and all its variants, along with his death date, the quote from "Traffic Specialist Sgt. Ed Ferguson", and pretty much everything else in the article. Either he hired someone good to clear all traces of him (or did so himself) or, as Tokyogirl says, more likely is completely made up. Going back to the first edits of the page, they were the first three (and only three) edits of a user Skortch412. Going to have to call this one a pretty clear-cut hoax. Possible G3 candidate. Deadbeef 05:12, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as hoax. Legacypac (talk) 05:29, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete on WP:BIO grounds, but I don't think it's a hoax: "the freaking 'Tommy Lee' of hacking" (!!!), interview with v00d00, moscow times mention, did some work for this company, hacker database... looked like there are more, but nothing reliable. --— Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 04:14, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- As a side note, I did find one seemingly reliable source about him (behind a paywall): "A Survey of Cyber Crimes" in the journal Security and Communication Networks, volume 5:422-437. .......but it cites answers.com. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 04:19, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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