The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 11:20, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Night Fox

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Unsourced speculative article on a subject who may or not be living. Has been reduced to a stub form from [1], but I still feel this is insufficient. Was tagged for prod, but the tag was removed by 70.248.119.184 (talk · contribs). Cheers, Afluent Rider 16:25, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

comment - I would rather see this page remain as a stub. There was a lot of information in the original article before it was repeatedly blanked, and I can understand the concerns that would lie behind blanking it - but it would be nice to see if this article can be sourced! AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 16:39, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unless someone manages to find a source for this (which I think is unlikely to happen). - makomk 17:34, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
'Delete Totally unsourced and likely hoax as well. I can find no evidence of a David Renard assassin. Based on a Google/Amazon search: French teacher, actor, author, government official: Yes, assassin: No. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 18:09, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unsourced and quite probably unsourceable; looking back at the previous information, there's a lot of "may have," "could" and "uncertain" splashed around. Chances are, the CIA's not going to blab about trying to whack one of its own assassins, either. (And no, no relation.) Tony Fox (arf!) 19:53, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unsourced hoax. An earlier version of the article claimed he was a long-term contract operative of the American Central Intelligence Agency. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, he was known to have been the CIA's contractor of choice for deniable "executive action" assignments. Under Executive Order 11905, President Ford prohibited the use of assassination by all US intelligence agencies, a ban that continued under Carter, Reagan, and Bush. That means that he shouldn't have been assassinating anyone for the CIA during that period, and the CIA shouldn't have been trying to assassinate him in 1990. More broadly, this fails WP:V; I haven't found a single result from a non-Wikipedia page, nor in Google Books or Google News Archive. This is mildly entertaining wikifiction. --Dhartung | Talk 05:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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.