Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Layng

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:49, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas Layng[edit]

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Does this meet WP:GNG. There is another cleric of the same name but the notability of this particular one seems to rest entirely on his headmastership of Abingdon School - his other clerical and educational roles were relatively minor, and I really can't find much that discusses him. Sitush (talk) 15:46, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 16:27, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Weak Keep. Headmaster of notable private schools. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:52, 10 August 2017 (UTC).[reply]

No, headmaster of one school. And notability is not inherited. - Sitush (talk) 03:27, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
BTW, I did consider suggesting a redirect to Abingdon School but there are two issues with that. Firstly, it isn't the only thing with which he was associated and thus could be misleading; secondly, we don't usually redirect non-notables where the only useful source is connected to the target subject matter (ie: a sort of WP:SPS). I was surprised to discover that his death seems not to have been reported in either The Times or The Guardian, although there are the usual lists of clerical appointments, which are effectively passing mentions. - Sitush (talk) 07:24, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Weak delete. If he'd lived a century earlier, he'd might have made it into the DNB. As it is, he gets coverage in the memoirs of some of his former pupils, but the Google Books snippets aren't enough to tell whether it's significant. I don't think this is ever going to pass WP:GNG and be expandable. Like most teachers, I think the late Rev'd Mr Layng's memorial will be in the lives of his pupils, not the pages of Wikipedia. Matt's talk 10:18, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not a bishop or equivalent (our typical indicator of meeting GNG for Christian clerics). Failing that, the sources don't indicate on their own that he was notable. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:10, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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