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The result was delete. ✗plicit 05:39, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nuremberg Plate[edit]

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I think there's a decent chance that this is a hoax. The only citation is to Maria Theresa's "Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana", available here, which doesn't appear to yield any matches. The "Illustrated Catalogue of the Historical and World-Renowed Collection of Torture Instruments, Etc. from the Royal Castle of Nuremberg" (yes, that's a thing; available here) yields no matches for "plate" or "disc" or anything else. Other searches in both English and German reveal nothing more than information about literal Nuremberg plates, i.e. fine china. If it isn't a hoax, it still fails the GNG. If it is a hoax, it'll earn a prominent place in the hoax museum. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 19:40, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 19:40, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 19:40, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment, the article was deleted from the German Wikipedia in 2007 as a probable hoax[1]. SailingInABathTub (talk) 20:47, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Good catch! That increases my level of confidence: this is almost certainly a hoax. It's really quite remarkable that it made it almost fourteen years without arousing any suspicion. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:04, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy delete per G3. Hoax, unless this article refers to plate armor, Nuremberg license plates, or actual plates produced in Nuremburg. I'm thinking it might be none of these. AdoTang (talk) 17:47, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy delete and take it to the hoax museum. If deleted, this would be one of the oldest hoaxes on the English Wikipedia. Wizzito (talk) 07:09, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, hoax, but not as elaborate as the iron maiden herself, and not worthy an article. Here's a bit of discussion about the German article deleted in 2007. —Kusma (talk) 10:23, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  I also don't see this illustration anywhere in the Constitutio Criminalis. —Kusma (talk) 10:25, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy delete per G3.4meter4 (talk) 16:25, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.