Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Howe (British Army officer)
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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. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 01:24, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Joseph Howe (British Army officer)
The subject of the article is described as having been an officer in the French and Indian War and as being perhaps a relative of the Viscounts Howe. The former claim is insufficient to establish notability. The latter is asserted by an early 20th-century American genealogy and contradicted by contemporary and modern works on the British peerage. It seems very likely that Maj. Howe's connection to the viscounts is the result of wishful thinking among his latter-day descendants. Choess (talk) 02:55, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
- Delete. Even if it could be proven that he was related to the viscounts, howe would that make him notable? Clarityfiend (talk) 03:47, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
- Muster out as we are not a genealogical directory and even though the person making the claim was notable and the purported relatives are notable, that does not make him notable. --Dhartung | Talk 04:59, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
- Delete: notability not inherited --Revanche (talk) 01:44, 18 January 2008 (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.
