Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rita de Candia


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The result was delete. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 18:11, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Rita de Candia

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This appears to be an elaborate hoax. There was a real person named Rita de Candia, and the information about her family is correct, but I could not verify any of the other claims the article makes about her. There is no mention of her in any of the references given in the article with the exception of the first one which simply lists her birth. The claim that she was the inspiration for Sally Bowles is blatantly untrue; Bowles was in fact based on Jean Ross.

I searched for reliable sources regarding de Candia's life and found only, which states that she was sent to prison for indebtedness. Given the blatant factual errors in the article and the lack of reliable sources, I am inclined to believe that this article constitutes a hoax. CataracticPlanets (talk) 05:17, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete Same conclusions as CataracticPlanets. Note that even the photograph description is probably an invention, the desc on commons only say "unknown woman": this is typical of this "Candia/Levieux" hoax.--Phso2 (talk) 12:22, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment Within the previous twelve months, the creator of the article, Charito2000, has also posted up three other, similarly themed ones: Pelegrina Pastorino, Robert Tracy (dancer), and Godfrey Robarts Pearse. They do not seem to be hoaxes. The image of a woman with a nude man in a studio appears also in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. -The Gnome (talk) 16:22, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The photo description says "An unknown woman in white and the naked dancer Hugo Biallowons (1879-1916) occupy the foreground." Article Godfrey Robarts Pearse doesn't provide any verifiable source, and simple google search doesn't give any useful answer. Everything this vandal writes is not an hoax, but a large part is, and the rest is often very dubious. I couldn't find a mention of Pelegrina Pastorino in the references given in her article, which doesn't mean she doesn't exist, but this is very problematic (see also the google search...); note that the 2 first pictures in Pastorino article were uploaded by a sockpuppet of Charito, and the third's origin in not verifiable.--Phso2 (talk) 17:36, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you, this is quite interesting. If what you say turns out to be correct, then people have even more more weird ways of passing their time than what I knew so far. -The Gnome (talk) 07:23, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * After a bit more research, it seems to me we might be dealing with a case of narcissistic mythomania. -The Gnome (talk) 19:09, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is probably more a psychological problem than "nasty" vandalism. Here is a little collection of some examples and ip/accounts that can give an general idea of the problem and of the pattern of contributions (by checking the global contributions, because of the cross-wiki factor).--Phso2 (talk) 20:13, 25 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete lack of sufficient sources to pass verifiability tests.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:10, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete since, after sleuthing it for a while, no N-supporting material was tracked down. (In fact, not even V-supporting material.) The subject has probably fewer claims on notability than a fictional character. -The Gnome (talk) 08:22, 29 May 2018 (UTC)


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