Deletion of Arkady Babchenko

Comment: The circumstances of the article's creation are irrelevant for the present purposes. The claim that he "faked his own death to get publicity" is supported by no evidence and would be immaterial even if it were true. (A successful fraud is still a success; we have a whole list of Outline of forgery#Notable forgers|notable forgers, after all.) Coverage of his work from years past https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/nov/21/biographyhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3670039/A-soldiers-memoir-of-Chechnya.htmlhttps://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/1641/one-soldiers-war-in-chechnya-by-arkady-babchenko means that  is inapplicable
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E)

Comment: Apparently the staging of his death bothers you, but that does not give you a policy basis for deleting the article. Prior to the revelation that his death was staged, Babchenko was the subject of obituaries in   (e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/29/russian-journalist-arkady-babchenko-shot-dead-in-kiev, https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/dissident-russian-journalist-killed-in-ukraine-1.3513147, http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russian-journalist-arkady-babchenko-shot-dead-kyiv-ukraine-1.4682845) and therefore meets  and 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:INDEPENDENT||WP:RS||WP:GNG||WP:BIO)