Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arkady Babchenko
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
— User:XOR, 04:29, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BLP1E (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)