Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alex Turner (slave)

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The result was merge to Daisy Turner. Sandstein 06:26, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alex Turner (slave)

An interesting biographical entry, and probably an interesting man too, but the only references for this are two local histories. These may well be reliable, but two smalltown sources aren't enough to demonstrate notability: otherwise, every person of much of any prominence in any community (for example, every local politician) would be notable. Nyttend (talk) 20:46, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Family tale told by Daisy Turner, even on a Ken Burns documentary, does not notability make. --Dhartung | Talk 00:58, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, no notability to speak of. Stifle (talk) 13:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment A third local history has been added to the article, but that doesn't change my opinion about the lack of notability. Nyttend (talk) 13:47, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, I believe Alex is notable indeed. The article needs improvement and citations, not deletion. His actions at Front Royal, Va are notable with no need to argue.Hmose (talk) 13:53, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- How does leading a military regiment to a place and killing a nonnotable person cause him to fulfill our notability criteria? Nyttend (talk) 15:02, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By the way: please note that there has been canvassing in favor of keeping this article by Hmose. Nyttend (talk) 15:13, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- canvassing was inadvertant, sorry. Thought that prior author(s) should be informed per AFD rules.Hmose (talk) 20:06, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Daisy Turner, due to lack of notability. The Alex Turner article is a much better article than the article about Daisy Turner, but she has a much stronger claim to notability than he does, and his interesting story would fit very nicely into the article about her. --Orlady (talk) 15:59, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Vermont-related deletion discussions. —Orlady (talk) 02:02, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Daisy Turner per Orlady.Nrswanson (talk) 05:19, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Daisy Turner per Orlady. One well-written article should be created, which would be more useful than two weak ones.Scott Mingus (talk) 12:29, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge There is enough material for one notable and well developed article. --Stormbay (talk) 18:43, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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