Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Salisbury (married Frances Webb)

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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 --JForget 00:28, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thomas Salisbury (married Frances Webb)

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Thomas Salisbury seems unnotable in his own right. Evident by the title, the only thing he is notable for is marrying Frances Webb. Tavix (talk) 01:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

  • DeleteI can find nothing on him alone, and as per Relationships do not confer notability, he shouldn't be included based on his wife's status. Noble Story (talk) 01:57, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per nomination. Udonknome (talk) 02:07, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Delete(Sigh, ok, convinced that refs are insufficient to satisfy WP:BIO) Not that distant an ancestor of a Queen Mother and a Queen of a major country. Sources likely exist with more information of this individual than is included in the article. (disclosure: likely my distant relative). Edison (talk) 03:14, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
    • "Great Great Great Grandfather?" I would say that's definitely a distant relative. Maybe we should include the Queen's third cousin twice removed? Seriously though, there's basically no information about him online, and he has no notability other than a tenuous hold to royalty. Noble Story (talk) 03:52, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
      • No, third cousin would be less interesting than ancestor. Edison (talk) 02:13, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:BIO. Being a distant ancestor of royalty is not an inherent claim to notability. In this case, there is no indication of when the subject died, where he was born, or where he died, or what he did in his life besides marrying and fathering a daughter. His date of birth is not specified except as to "circa" the decade. Nor are any sources provided. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:23, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete no biographical details, and notability is not inherited. Bfigura (talk) 04:24, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Merely a genealogical entry, which Wikipedia is not. --Dhartung | Talk 04:53, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per Dhartung. Recreate later if sources show that he himself did something notable. -Verdatum (talk) 15:29, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per above.--Berig (talk) 17:50, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per Dhartung; purely a genealogical entry. Choess (talk) 02:06, 1 May 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.