Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Key West Method

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The result was delete --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:45, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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None of the references check out, absolutely no google hits beyond this page itself. All three of the books are publicly available, yet nothing remotely like this appears on the pages in question. Likely a total fabrication. HCA (talk) 02:51, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete In addition to relying on Nom's check on the references in the article, I tried searching a number of different way, including "Key west Method" + hunting. found nothing. Then there is the text, if you swam up on a sea turtle from behind and strangled it to death as suggested here, unless you were swimming right beside a seafood market, you would lose a lot of money. Turtles, like lobsters and oysters, were sold for the table live. Kill one using the "Key West Method," and You could sell the valuable turtle shell, but the meat would have been rendered worthless. Turtle meat was in high demand, and the turtle fishery was about the market for both meat and shell. See: Thompson Fish House, Turtle Cannery and Kraals. As to strangling an alligator with your bare hands, or "sneaking up" on a wild pig and hugging it to death.... I can only suppose that this hoax article is someone's idea of a joke.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:00, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 00:06, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 00:06, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - None of this currently suggests even a minimally better acceptable article. SwisterTwister talk 00:06, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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