Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Adair

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 of the debate was keep. Mailer Diablo 19:12, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Adair

Delete - Notability not established. Mais oui! 22:58, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. DarthVader 23:43, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, seems notable enough --Deville (Talk) 01:23, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He is the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he's in the British National Portrait Gallery, which as our article says, selects "on the basis of the significance of the sitter". He has an article in the Russian Wikipedia. Anyway, he was also an MP, which makes other factors irrelevant. Sumahoy 03:31, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

• There was a Robert Adair MP (d. 1737) for Philipstown, but that is not this guy. What is your source for him being an MP? He is an incidental character in a series of sketches by one artist. As for Russian Wikipedia and "... our article says... ": WP:CITE makes it crystal clear that we cannot use Wikipedia as a source.--Mais oui! 05:38, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
  • I wasn't citing it as a source, I was giving it as supporting evidence of notability - and even though it's in Russian I can make out some other aspects of his notability from it. This page is not a citation cleanup facility. I've added his parliamentary details to the article. However I don't see why I should have to do this. The onus is supposed to be on the nominator to research the subjects of the articles nominated, but you don't seem to bother. Sumahoy 17:01, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. As Sumahoy notes, he is in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The article is sort of pointless in its brevity, but as the nomination is based on the issue of notability, I guess we'll just have to trust the ODNB people to know what they are doing. u p p l a n d 06:50, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: per User:Sumahoy. --die Baumfabrik 07:39, 29 April 2006 (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.