Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jaco Finlay

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The result was Keep, nomination withdrawn. Better no article than a bad article, but obviously better a decent, sourced article than no article... Fram 14:36, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Jaco Finlay

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Prodded because "Fails WP:BIO. He built two soon abandoned trading posts, and has many descendants. WP:NOT a genealogical site." Prod removed with quite uncivil comment at the talk page, with as main reason "Jaco Finlay is THE most important Native American in at least an eight hundred mile radius.". As for why no indication of this fact is presented in the article, which is over a year old: "It's not done fast enough? I think that's racist!". As I'm not impressed by these arguments, I present the article here at AfD for wider discussion. Fram 19:01, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

• Weak keep. Jaco Finlay garners what appears to be a decent number of Google hits for a late 18th/early 19th century person, including 60 Google Books hits [1]. The article doesn't establish notability as it is now, but it may be possible to improve it to do so. --Metropolitan90 23:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, one of the first documented persons of European descent to cross the Continental Divide (though his full-blood boss, who came a year later, gets the credit). --Dhartung | Talk 07:24, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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