Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2009-2010 Puerto Peñasco coup d’état attempt


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The result was   speedy delete. Per WP:HOAX and WP:NOTMYSPACE. Facebook spats have no place on Wikipedia. Fences &amp;  Windows  18:10, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

2009-2010 Puerto Peñasco coup d’état attempt

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This article purports to describe a coup or attempted coup which supposedly took place in the last few days against the "La Jolla de Cortés" regime near Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. However, no explanation of the nature of the government against which this coup was allegedly perpetrated can be found. Purportedly, the coup began when one of the members of the governing council attempted to withdraw from it and set herself up as "supreme dictatress". However, the plotter is identified as "a female and resident of Tucson identified as TEH". I find it hard to believe that a resident of Arizona could have been exercising government power in a Mexican town while also being known only by her initials. Most of the sources used in this article are from a Facebook page, not a reliable source. Furthermore, three of the more promising-looking sources, articles from El Imparcial (a Hermosillo newspaper), turn out to be completely irrelevant. One is about a man who killed his wife in a murder-suicide in Caborca, more than 75 miles away from Puerto Peñasco; another is about the murder rate in Nogales, more than 100 miles away; and the third is a gossip item about Mariah Carey. My guesses are that either this article is a hoax, or it describes a controversy within some small radical group as opposed to a coup against an actual local government. But either way, it should be deleted for lack of reliable sources and being unverifiable. Metropolitan90 (talk) 17:05, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Sounds like a hoax. :-) Kitfoxxe (talk) 17:19, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Please do not delete this article. All other coverage of the incident is being shunned. Communications in the area are cut off. The author of the article was effectively kidnapped by the La Jolla de Cortés regime for writing this article, because it caused representatives from the Federal Police and the Sonoran Justice Ministry to notice the situation. These heinous crimes will only get the attention they need if the article remains for a few days. Why not wait to delete it until the coup ends? At the moment this Wikipedia article is one of the only hopes for the victims of the brutal administration. (72.222.239.93 (talk) 17:47, 3 January 2010 (UTC))
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