Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benjamin George Lascelles

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete Jtkiefer^{T | C | @} ---- 01:35, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Benjamin George Lascelles[edit]

I'm bringing this here after originally having put a nn-bio tag on it. The tag was removed by an anon, replaced by another editor, and then removed again by User:Philwelch with the edit summary "royalty are notable". The article, as it now stands, is a couple of lines of genealogical information. My impression is that our standards for inclusion of biographical articles are fairly demanding, and this article does not meet them. If there is some precedent for keeping all articles about nobles, I am unaware of it. Jkelly 17:09, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete; there is also an ongoing discussion on people related to Napoleon Bonaparte, for example at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jerome Napoleon Charles Bonaparte. A relative of a notable person is not notable by themselves, and this person here appear to be notable only as a distant relative of King Edward VII. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 18:24, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Royalty may be inherently notable but distant relatives without title are not. Swegner 18:56, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This person's notability is questionable. He is not, however, so blatantly non-notable as to be a candidate for speedy deletion. So I let this AfD resolve itself as it will. — Phil Welch 21:04, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
This man is not in line to inherit the Earldom of Harewood, due to illegitimacy, as mentioned in his father's article. Therefore, his notability rests on the identity of his antecedents alone. That is not enough for me: delete. Sliggy 21:15, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Would have tagged it as A7 myself- but hey, I'm not a Brit. --JJay 23:13, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I don't think he counts as royalty. Carina22 16:03, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Not notable. *drew 04:49, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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