Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patrick Bijou


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The result was soft delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz Read! Talk! 23:19, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Patrick Bijou

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Convicted fraudster who once featured in The Times for posing as a UN ambassador and a lot of UK tabloids like the Daily Mail and Birmingham Mail previously ran with the same story as well but, to be honest, The Times is the only robust WP:RS that I can find that ever mentioned Bijou. The two IBT articles and  are clearly unreliable as they are written by contributors rather than journalists and are hugely promotional. WP:CRIME lists two ways in which perpetrators can qualify for a stand-alone article; Bijou is certainly not a renowned national or international figure nor is his crime unusual enough to warrant its own article. Plenty of people in history have pretended to be other people and I'm just not seeing the sustained coverage needed. Most of the tabloid stories are from April 2022 and from UK press and seem to discuss the exact same thing; that isn't sustained international coverage. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:39, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Businesspeople, Crime, Finance, United Kingdom,  and South America.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:39, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete Erotic novelist implies a shot at AUTHOR, but I can't find any reviews of his works. Not notable otherwise. Oaktree b (talk) 22:36, 26 May 2023 (UTC)


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