Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marcy Cody


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The result was   delete.  Sandstein  19:58, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Marcy Cody

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I am (once again) going to put myself and my poor Google searching ability on the line once again for this one. I believe this to be a hoax, as I could not find any information on a "Marcy Cody" that has any of the characteristics that are listed in this article. Surely if she "became a household name throughout Europe" there should be something on the Internet about her. There are just as many irrelevant results for her in French as there are in English, so I do not believe that language is the problem here. The Google newspaper archive search reveals nothing and, while I fully admit that it has flaws, surely it would turn up at least a few results if she were truly as notable as the article claims. Furthermore, I'm a bit confused as to what her actual claim is. It is heavily implied that she is a singer, but the final sentence state that "her best works were lost in the Great Warehouse Fire of 1943 during a raid on London." If she is a singer, how can her best works be lost in a fire? True, her recordings could be destroyed, but that's a very odd way of putting that. If she is real, then I don't see anything verifiable here. Cheers, CP 22:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete "rumoured that a streetwalker was her mother" is close enough to libelous to wail WP:BIO. We need sources for that sort of thing.  Pirate Argh!!1! 22:50, 16 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Hoax. Did many searches, got nothing relevant. Especially under her supposed stage name "madame marcella", should have gotten hits if she existed.John Z (talk) 01:54, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. - hoax. I too can find no confirmation. If she was a "close friend" of all those celebrities there would surely be some trace. I note the author has made no other contributions. JohnCD (talk) 21:24, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete And even if recordings were 'lost' as described, presumably master copies would have been stored at a safe location: protection of potentially expensive copyright and 'ownership' claims being the consideration. Anyway, the Nom has summed up the article's myriad problems. Plutonium27 (talk) 10:11, 21 August 2008 (UTC)


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