User:Evad37/sandbox/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 March 24

Guide to deletion

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The result was delete. Black Kite (talk) 17:51, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Thomas Richard Cookson

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Fails the professor test, was created by blocked Bonkers The Clown (talk · contribs), who has created dozens of non-articles. --Zinghong (talk) 11:31, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

• Delete - Per nom. Doesn't appear to meet WP:TEACHER or indeed WP:GNG. None of the references in the article support notability (Indeed most are dead, are barely trivial mentions, or are otherwise unrelated to the subject. For example, how does a book published in 1907 support the statement that the subject was a headmaster 100 years later? Was that book written perhaps by Nostradamus?) Guliolopez (talk) 01:52, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:05, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:05, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

• Keep. Headmasters of major schools (and Winchester is one) can be notable, Xxanthippe (talk) 05:16, 12 February 2017 (UTC),
• Delete A headmaster CAN be notable, but being a headmaster of a major school doesn't automatically make you notable by itself. Without any sources that aren't simply reporting that "this is the headmaster of this school", he's not notable, and that's what we have here. CrispyGlover (talk) 13:01, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
• Delete. While a headmaster can be notable, this one does not appear to be. He doesn't meet the WP:GNG bar of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Lincolnite (talk) 17:23, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

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