Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Jenkins of Stowting Court

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Jenkins of Stowting Court was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was ambiguous. The disputes of factual accuracy were successfully addressed by Cutler's findings leaving one vote to keep and one vote to delete as non-notable/genealogical. Reviewing the content again, I find that I agree with Geogre's argument that the Jenkins ancestors were not notable in their own right. That brings the conclusion to a bare majority to delete. Note: If anyone decides that this article should be recreated, they can easily do so from this edit of the main article on Fleeming Jenkin. Rossami 21:56, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

This was preamble to Fleeming Jenkin which I removed to a separate article. It has spent a week or so on WP:Cleanup and improved a lot. The question now is do we want it at all? I'm agnostic. Cutler 19:42, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)

  • Keep. Why not? It's rather well-written, and they seem to have been at least somewhat important. --Slowking Man 02:46, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: Primarily of genealogical use, and the figures did not rise to significance. Geogre 04:46, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • This all smells awfully fishy to me, somehow. I can't find any references on Google to Fleeming Jenkin that aren't (a) eBooks of Stevenson's original text, (b) references to the book qua book, or (c) mirrors of the Wikipedia article. I have to add that at least some of these sites refer to the Stevenson book as a NOVEL. Is Fleeming Jenkin a real historical figure, or did some clever cookie slip a fictional character under our noses? Bearcat 09:57, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • Encyclopaedia Britannica refers. He is one of the true greats of the heroic era of engineering. Are you making a point about Google? I found plenty of hits not restricted to (a), (b) or (c), such as [1] and [2]! Cutler 19:53, Aug 15, 2004 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.

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