Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Levi Addison Gardner

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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. east.718 at 09:48, November 25, 2007

[edit] Levi Addison Gardner

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The only claim of notability for this person is that he had a daughter, who later had a son, who later became US President. The article doesn't even say what he did all his life, and more space is given to the daughter (Dorothy Ayer Gardner Ford) than to the subject. Delete as non-notable person. Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 12:53, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete Not notable per WP:BIO. --Strothra (talk) 13:45, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as per Nom. scope_creep (talk) 17:50, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Non-notable. Karanacs (talk) 21:06, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete- As per guidelines :" ...the relationship to someone notable does not, in itself, make that person notable.---Iconoclast Horizon 00:49, 20 November 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iconoclast.horizon (talk • contribs)
  • Weak delete per nom, but it asserts notability and has a source. Needs a LOT of work. Bearian'sBooties (talk) 22:23, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - The argument that wikipedia is not a geneological list is good. However, there should be a different criteria for heads of state. Biographies of heads of state always report the ancestors. I created the article when Ford died to explain why he wound up in Grand Rapids as opposed to some place else. Americasroof (talk) 16:46, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment - if this is the only reason, then why not just explain this in the Gerald Ford article? Yes, biographies (not just of heads of state) usually mention ancestors, but that doesn't mean they get their own biography. Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 09:16, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong delete - there is no rationale whatsoever in this article to keep it. There is not even a point to make a redirect. Greswik (talk) 17:35, 24 November 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.