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Blue squirrel hoax
This article seems like a hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_squirrel

The references include digitally manipulated images, satire, and a video which pretty clearly doesn't actually depict a blue squirrel.

136.25.138.190 (talk) 02:23, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Also Purple squirrel Purple squirrel (animal). The references need to be scrutinized, certainly, but this can't be speedily deleted as an obvious hoax. Would need to go to AfD, I think.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 02:38, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Pinging I went ahead and nominated the blue squirrel article on your behalf. "Purple squirrel" seems to be a figure of speech. -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @  03:48, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, some of the refs seem to check out, but others are obviously not reliable. The question remains whether there ever were Siberian or Asian "blue squirrels"? Those refs are thin. The more contemporary refs seem to be either obvious fakes or reports of observations of squirrels that had perhaps encountered some blue dye, but not reliable reports we could base an article on. Note: I had to add the disambiguation to the purple squirrel link. That article contains more of the unreliable contemporary reports without any 19th century references to check.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 04:41, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Right, that would be one reason I nominated the article for deletion. I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @  05:33, 11 December 2018 (UTC)