Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jarvis Family

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The result of the debate was DELETE. dbenbenn | talk 23:16, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jarvis Family

doesnt establish notability. Nateji77 22:58, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Agreed. Also it's only one line anyway. Delete Radiant! 23:57, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, Wikipedia is not a geneological database. Szyslak 01:01, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, while this is not much of an article the Jarvises are one of the most important families in Toronto history. - SimonP 01:12, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but only after it is greatly expanded to establish notability. --Spinboy 01:38, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

It has not been expanded, so is this now a vote to delete? -- James Teterenko (talk) 06:32, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. —Mar·ka·ci:2005-02-13 02:02 Z
• Keep. The subject is encyclopedic. CJCurrie 02:21, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, Some of the Jarvis's are notable (e.g. Samuel & William) and they should have their own pages. Having an article on the family does not seem to make sense to me. Another sample Canadian family is the Aspers: we have articles for Izzy Asper and Leonard Asper, but nothing in Asper Family -- James Teterenko (talk) 02:34, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, genealogy (articles on historic individuals are a different kettle of kin). Wyss 11:48, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete -entirely vacuous.Brookie 19:36, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete sub-stubs, but if someone expands this to also say "one of the most prominent Loyalist families in 19th century Canada, and a key reference in the study of the 19th century due to the large collection of letters between the extended Jarvis-Powell Family stored in The Loyalist Collection in the University of North Brunswick[1]" then they may change my vote to keep Mozzerati 20:46, 2005 Feb 13 (UTC)

On the other hand.... I've got several ancestors more famous than that yet none of my family's names have generic WP articles. Wyss 19:35, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

If I was arguing to keep, then I would say that there's a difference between a family which is deliberately studied as a family and one which has several famous individuals. Since I'm arguing to delete, because the article doesn't say anything about that, I won't disagree. VFD is not a cleanup tool and all that :-) Mozzerati 20:19, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)

Yes, in trying to be brief I neglected to say there's a line in there somewhere. Wyss 21:52, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Wikipedia is not a genealogical database. See the current version of Gahn for contrast. Rossami (talk) 14:49, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Articles, even substubs, of notable people? A-ok. But articles on their entire families? It'll take more than this one-liner to convince me to overlook precedent on genealogical entries. —Korath (Talk) 02:01, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I could be persuaded to change my vote if the article is rewritten and expanded to establish notability. But I'm not promising to. -R. fiend 20:23, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, with reservations. Article in desperate need of expansion. Megan1967 05:38, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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