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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by History6042 talk 14:51, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Created by Partofthemachine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Partofthemachine (talk) 23:54, 31 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: None required.
Overall: Earwig gives no concerning hits, hook appears to be interesting enough. Hook cited by "The conspiracy had previously been shared widely on social media after Castro's death in 2016, when Trudeau caused an uproar over remarks praising the late Cuban leader." AlphaBetaGamma (Talk/report any mistakes here) 02:39, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why the hell is this here?

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Really, what more do I need to add? An utterly inane "theory," with zero evidence.

Does every conspiracy theory get its own entry? You do know, for example, that Elvis is actually John Wilkes Booth brought back to life by the communists, who gained the power to resurrect the dead when they secretly flew to the moon in the 1920s, right?

The only notability of this idiotic notion is that a certain US President once believed it. Same guy also believes a whole lot of stuff that has no evidence behind it. Spanghew2fs (talk) 02:21, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Notability is determined by it being substantially covered by reliable secondary sources, not whether the theory is sane or not. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 04:30, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Additionally, there is documentation of the family being in Canada at the time that Justin Trudeau was conceived."

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This isn't true, per snopes:

Following Snopes' original publication of this piece, several readers discovered an omission in our debunking. Some particularly zealous critics have argued this omission masks a more plausible time in which a Castro-Trudeau child could have been conceived — an April trip to the Caribbean dubbed a "second honeymoon." In our original piece, we stated:

For the remainder of April, Pierre was busy with governing, as attested to by logs of the Canadian House of Commons, making it unlikely that his work would take the couple anywhere near Havana.

This statement was incorrect. The Trudeaus took a trip to several Caribbean islands from April 8 to April 18 — a period of time consistent with the conception window for Justin Trudeau discussed above. Based on coverage of their movements from 1971, the trip took the couple to Barbados, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago. Snopes

The sentence should read "Additionally, there is documentation that the family was not in Cuba at the time that Justin Trudeau was conceived." TurboSuperA+(connect) 07:09, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I made the edit. TurboSuperA+(connect) 12:47, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

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A picture that shows Castro smiling as well would have been more helpful in showcasing the slight similarity that the believers are presumably inspired by. 62.73.72.3 (talk) 10:46, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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