Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edgar Summers

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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 Delete. --VS talk 14:47, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edgar Summers

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I can't find anything particularly notable about this guy or his achievements, so unless there is some kind of precedent/consensus for vicars, this is non-notable. Adrian M. H. 20:37, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete per WP:NOTE for academics. Important to the history of a school (Abingdon), if only because he bought land and a cottage to donate to the school, but other than a short obit in Burke's Register and a mention of the marriage of his daughter to the son of another vicar, I can't see anything. I'm sort of on the fence, because I can't shake the feeling there's more here. Article definitely does not assert notability.--Ispy1981 20:57, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep I think it is reasonable to keep articles on the headmasters of the major UK and US private schools. I agree with Ispy that more material can probably be found, but I have not yet found it.DGG 01:05, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 08:58, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete -- there is zero notability indicated here; he was an administrator. Are we going to list every principal of every school in the world? This would set a ridiculous precedent. --RandomHumanoid(⇒) 07:02, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete and Merge with Abingdon School -- the Headmasters section there could be expanded from a simple list to a list with biographical data: of the Headmasters from 1800-1947 none of them seem to pass notability, but the information could improve the school's article. (btw -- how does delete and merge actually happen? Once delete is passed, we non-admins can't get the information to merge, but if an article passes keep then the merge is redundant. Never yet figured this one out.) -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 15:35, 22 June 2007 (UTC) (changed to just Merge at 22:56, 27 June 2007 (UTC))
    • I added a {{merge}} tag to the page. I think this is a reasonable solution. --RandomHumanoid(⇒) 23:03, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge with Abingdon School per above. To answer Myke's question: according to WP:DELPRO, merge is treated as a keep. —David Eppstein 05:30, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
    • Ah, then I'll strike the delete part. Funny that Merge is keep, since I'd rather merge, but if it's between keep and delete, I'd rather delete. Thanks. -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 22:56, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, not notable. -- Steve Hart 14:42, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. However, I support the merger of the article with Abingdon School. aJCfreak yAk 16:58, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.