Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Brown (colliery proprietor)

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The result was delete. Notability not established. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 02:04, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Stephen Brown (colliery proprietor)[edit]

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A rich person who went to Newington College and inherited the family business. No specific business achievements disclosed Adsfvdf54gbb (talk) 12:02, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 13:00, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 13:01, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for now. I cannot see how this person is notable based on the article or on what I can readily find. However, this off line material could be very revealing, if some one can access it ? Aoziwe (talk) 08:56, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete though would also be interested to see the material Aoziwe notes. I also note that there is a deliberately misleading citation - the title is given as "Brown, Stephen (1869–1958)" (implying that he has an Australian Dictionary of Biography article), when the actual article linked is one on his brother, which has three lines about this person, and isn't considered notable enough for a joint listing by the ADB. The Drover's Wife (talk) 09:30, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Nothing I can find here - and as The Drover's Wife says, that citation is pretty much fraudulent. The NLA cuttings might establish notability, but they might also be nothing at all. Frickeg (talk) 10:52, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Please reconsider your comments about Fraud and then consider an apology.
- You wrote an intentionally misleading citation that implied he had an Australian Dictionary of Biography article. The ADB has no record, standalone article or joint article, for "Brown, Stephen (1869–1958)", which you wrote as the title of the citation. This is poor form - and screwing up and doubling-down and demanding apologies just makes it worse. The Drover's Wife (talk) 22:35, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Senior partner of a major private Australian company ... he inherited the position because it was a private firm. Castlemate (talk) 22:47, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete colliery proprietor? This guy has no particular achievements outside of the small business related sphere he was in. Classic case of non-notability.Siegfried Nugent (talk) 11:33, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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