Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samuel C. Woodruff Jr.

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 11:42, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Samuel C. Woodruff Jr.[edit]

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The article is just 1 paragraph that is basically a biography of what seems like a random person. Obviously fails WP:N. Philosophy2 (talk) 06:37, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 09:51, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 09:51, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Possible merge to Woodruff Park (Olympia). Geschichte (talk) 13:32, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Is the park notable, though? Geschichte (talk) 09:26, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 12:00, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I'm not sure why he has an article to be honest. Oaktree b (talk) 13:30, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Nothing even close to notability, and the sources are not even remotely close to showing he is notable. I have my doubts the park is notable, but donating land to create a park does not make one notable. Yes, in my own city of Detroit we have Palmer Park (Detroit) which comes in at 296 acres, and Thomas W. Palmer who donated the first 140 acres for the park has an article. However Palmer has an article firstly because he was a US Senator.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:49, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Lizzie Pitts Merrill Palmer who co-donated the land for Palmer Park with her husband, is more the level of the type of person who does in large part become notable for philanthropic donations. However her park donation was far larger than Woodruff's, and she donated to multiple others causes, set up institutions, and is included in a 1970s multi-volume biographical dictionary of American women. Even at that she seems to have been involved with the movement to extend the vote to women, although the article does not give us any clear indication of what positions she may have held in that movement.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:57, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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