Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baldwin, Hoar and Sherman family

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The result was delete. Courcelles 10:53, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Baldwin, Hoar and Sherman family[edit]

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Article appears to be largely original research, and it is more about genealogy than about the supposed topic. This collection of people is characterized in the article as a powerful American political family, but I've found no evidence of any reliable source ever describing this collection of people as a political family. (The main source for the article seems to be the Political Graveyard, which is not a particularly reliable source.) Yes, many of these people were related (it's not clear that all of them were) and some of them were prominent politicians, but that doesn't add up to a "powerful political family" -- a genealogical connection is not the same thing as a familial alliance. There is encyclopedic value in some of this content -- for example, Roger Sherman's notable sons-in-law need to be discussed in the article about Roger Sherman. and the discussion of the Hoar family at Samuel Hoar#Hoar family is worthwhile, but linking all of these people to one another -- not to mention linking them to both George W. Bush and John Kerry -- is genealogical trivia. Wikipedia is not a genealogy publisher. Orlady (talk) 04:59, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. —Orlady (talk) 05:16, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. —Orlady (talk) 05:16, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. —Orlady (talk) 05:16, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: A powerful lot of WP:NOR and WP:SYNTH going on there. Ravenswing 13:49, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per User:Ravenswing, also Wikipedia is not a directory for the many loosely associated people in this list. Hekerui (talk) 16:29, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, although the edit history show me as the creator of this article, the intention was simply to divert the large volume of content from the more general List of United States political families. I have no real concern with whether the article is kept or deleted. Most of the content was added to List of United States political families by several anonymous IP users and subsequently expanded in similar vein by AaronB0413 (talk · contribs). older ≠ wiser 20:13, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Genealogical trivia, original research, no encyclopedic value. —Kevin Myers 01:29, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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