Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Wood (Mormon pioneer)

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The result was keep. m.o.p 05:31, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel Wood (Mormon pioneer)[edit]

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Artical has been tag as failing "notability" and "single source" since January 2010. --ARTEST4ECHO (^talk/_contribs) 21:48, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and fix - So after some research, and a false start where I confused him with a whaling ship of the same era (^_^) - he was an early settler of Bountiful and had Wood's Cross named after him after being the first settler there in 1849, there's a bit on him at the bottom of page 26 here, in 1863 his family began having meetings regarding the church and he is the focus of the Conscience more than Comfort chapter found here. - ManicSpider (talk) 23:20, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Utah-related deletion discussions. —ManicSpider (talk) 23:26, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and expand as the user above, I've found a few refs (copied to talk page for now) which seem to assert notability. I am impressed that someone's put a 'citation needed' tag on a reference though!--ThePaintedOne (talk) 23:43, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Expand or Delete - I'm all for keeping any article that can be kept, but this article has been a two lines since 7 January 2010. I know nothing of this guy, so Unless ManicSpider or ThePaintedOne is willing to do the expanding then I still think the article should be deleted.--ARTEST4ECHO (^talk/_contribs) 14:02, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok, I've done a small improvement to the article. I've added in that he founded the town and it's named after him, along with two citations to that effect (I also back linked to this article from the town). Plus I added a citation for his birth info (it's an autobiography, so a primary source, but I think ok for basic info like that). Depending on how usable the autobiography is, there is lots more info there that could be included, but this really isn't my area so that's all I'm doing for now. However, I think there is enough now to assert notabillity and there are several sources whereas previously there was more or less nothing. It's still a stub and needs expanding, but being a stub is not a valid reason to delete.--ThePaintedOne 14:18, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos to ThePaintedOne for making the expansion. I'd also just note that WP:SOFIXIT is available to everyone, and not just to people who argue Keep on AfDs. Also, nowhere in the AfD guidelines does it say that the article must be deleted unless someone makes any changes needed before the close of the AfD debate. Just sayin' - ManicSpider (talk) 20:06, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep: but expand. Refs show notability. - Ret.Prof (talk) 23:13, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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