Deletion of Us russian alliance

Comment: per Geogre... after reading this article, I'm inclined to believe it's a |hoax. (For one, can someone please tell me what the memoirs of John Quincy Adams have to do with something that happened during the Civil War when he died in 1848?) I will give it a weak benefit of the doubt and say that those portions which can be sourced can be kept, but ''if and only if'' that happens before this AfD closes and it's not duplicated elsewhere on Wikipedia
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Do not create hoaxes (WP:HOAX)

Comment: Initial reading suggests that this isn't so much an outright hoax as it is some amateur historian's original research (the talk page comment ''I have as many references supporting the informal alliance as you have refuting them'' tells me that the author doesn't quite understand the o original research policy. And a long bibliography, while impressive-looking, doesn't mean much unless the references are connected to specific points (how the hell ''do'' John Quincy Adams's memoirs connect to a so-called alliance thirteen years after his death
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: but tag for cleanup (and possibly ). Article has many sources cited; I'd like to see it repaired rather than deleted. If specific objections can be claimed (and cited with |verifiable |sources), then please do so and work to change/improve the article in a meaningful fashion
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV||WP:V||WP:RS)