Talk:Gustave Anjou

Anjou Controversies
Because Anjou's fraud was so complete he has become the baseline by which other questionable genealogists have been measured, however, Anjou's celebrity for what he was has also ensnared many other genealogists who are compared to Anjou.

However the rise of the Internet has also given rise to particular articles regarding Anjou and those classified with him which have been spread about like seeds to the wind. One of the outcomes of this is that people in internet situations immediately condemn anyone who was compared to Anjou as being as a grifter as Anjou was and approached his clients.

My POV is that what separates Anjou from these others was his intent to defraud his customers in lieu of their paying him to come up with the truth on their family lines. Bad genealogy research has been a thorn in the side of anyone who takes the vocation as a hobby or a profession, however Anjou's actions have tainted many a family tree whereas others who are compared to him were merely sloppy. Stude62 23:21, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

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POV pushing
Fraud or not, you have to supply sources to support your contentions or the POV content will be removed. — btphelps (talk to me) (what I've done) 06:53, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I see 3 sources cited from reputable journals that all support that POV. If you have sources in defense of Anjou that you'd like to cite, please add them. Tarchon (talk) 22:32, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Name
The article states Anjou also used the names 'H. Anjou' and 'M. Anjou'; it's far more likely these stand for 'Herr Anjou' and 'Monsieur Anjou'. As a quotation given later in the article refers to him, he clearly was known as 'Herr Anjou'.
 * True, but I have personally seen an English-language manuscript of his with "H. Anjou" as the byline, so regardless of what they were intended to signify, they're functionally aliases. I have a suspicion that Anjou was employing ghostwriters at the height of his popularity, so the H. and M. Anjous could perhaps be where the actual author, perhaps even not knowing Anjou's actual (assumed) first name, lazily ascribed it to "Herr Anjou" or "Monsieur Anjou". IMO, he was far too prolific to have been a single author, and this is a very common MO for forgers, to operate a factory with low paid workers producing fakes sold on the master forger's account. But this is OR, so obviously it can't go in the article.Tarchon (talk) 22:09, 1 January 2022 (UTC)