Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Duquesne spy ring

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The result was Bizarre adventure. The AfD is being closed many years later, because it was never properly closed back then, because it was never visible, because it was never transcluded on any of the daily logpages. Technically, it has still been open this whole time.

Nobody else could ever be admitted here, because this door was made only for you. I am now going to shut it. jp×g 22:58, 17 October 2022 (UTC) (non-admin closure)

Duquesne spy ring



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"Duquesne spy ring" is a non-encyclopedic article. The article plagiarizes in its entirety a U.S. government source document. Sections of the plagiarized article have also been incorporated (wthout discussion) as sections into existing non-espionage articles (see SS America (1940) as an example. The article violates the first provision of Five Pillars.  See Don't include copies of primary sources, and also Plagiarism for reference.  See source #1 here, believed to be the true source of the article, and source #2 here, the source originally cited in the article's {USGovernment} citation.  Source #1 is not acceptable for inclusion in Wikisource (see Question 4.12 here for the reason). However, the original document released under FOIA for source #2 here might possibly meet the Wikisource criteria for inclusion, since it is a .pdf file copy of the original FBI document released under the FOIA.  K. Kellogg-Smith 02:38, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. As I said at the Village pump, "In this specific case, I am perfectly happy with transcluding information from the FBI site. Editors considering transcluding other text and images from U.S. government sites need to bear in mind, however, that some material may be false or misleading. Sometimes politicians lie." This is a useful and encyclopedic article. It should be kept. Nobody owns a Wikipedia article. --Eastmain 02:27, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete Copyvio. Copy/Paste material has existed since first version  Citi Cat  03:31, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Right you are.  Citi Cat  04:33, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Speedy Keep. This topic was already discussed in depth on the Village pump View AfD ... Ctatkinson 03:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep, original is public domain, no plagiarism and thus no deletion rationale. It would be better if expanded from non-FBI sources, particularly in light of WP:NPOV, but there is not a problem because it was originally created from a public domain source. --Dhartung | Talk 07:51, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * 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.