Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Franklin Pierce, Jr.

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 06:05, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Franklin Pierce, Jr.

I aborted a PROD of this article and have escalated it to AFD since the creator of the article is currently blocked and I assume would have contested the PROD if he could have. The article is about the son of a US president, who died in infancy at the age of 3 days. I assume the creator of the article would assert this baby is notable since he was the son of a president. A note in the article about the president seems reasonable to me, but an entire article about a baby who died 3 days after birth seems ludicrous to me. I'm hoping bringing this article to AFD helps convince the creator of this article that deleting this article reflects a consensus opinion. Rick Block (talk) 02:48, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete While I don't think it's fair that people born into royal familes get articles just for being born, this person never did anything notable. Being related to someone notable doesn't automatically make you notable. TJ Spyke 02:52, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Royalty is considered innately notable largely due to historical encyclopedic precedent. That privledge does not extent to other famous personages, including US presidents, especially in the total absence of any possible further content for the article at hand. Serpent's Choice
• Delete, not notable. Gazpacho 03:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, subject does not meet WP:BIO.--Isotope23 15:58, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable. - Triviaa 20:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Smerge anything not already mentioned on the pages for his parents, and redirect this to the father's article. Grutness...wha? 00:18, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
• merge and redirect this article should be merged with either of the two articles on his parents Franklin Pierce or Jane Pierce. Also the dates for his birth and death are incorrect in this article. I would have to double-check Internet sources on his father, but I am pretty sure he was born in the late 1830s or early 1840s. --TommyBoy 00:48, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
• Comment, Following up on my earlier comments, I have confirmed that he was born in 1836, and added a source for that info --TommyBoy 21:48, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect. A clear cut failure to be notable per WP:BIO. Also, WP:NOT says that we are not a genealopgy archive or a memorial, both of which count against this. GRBerry 22:36, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

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