Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Henry Farquhar

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The result of the debate was KEEP. dbenbenn | talk 00:22, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] William Henry Farquhar

Seems like a very, very minor historical figure. Served on the school board, acted as census taker, made a bid for the senate, raised a family. Nothing that really stands out. --Lee Hunter 23:23, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Bogus VFD. Perfectly notable minor historical figure. Keep. --Centauri 01:16, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Being notable in a single county in the USA is sufficient to be in Wikipedia? Shouldn't we try to be more global here? Just imagine every county or municipality in the world putting up an article for their notable figures. JoaoRicardo 01:49, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Yes, just imagine it; there's finally an encyclopedia that can actually make it a reality. --Centauri 06:29, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

And Wikimedia will spend money archiving information no one will ever want to read. JoaoRicardo 23:45, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

"Hard disks are cheap. I agree with this one completely. --w:Jimbo Wales." Keep. (At the same time, I can appreciate some case for deletion. But keep.) Samaritan 03:12, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Point taken. But I must say I find the appeal to authority unnecessary. The argument you cited is valid per se, it doesn't need to be endorsed by someone. JoaoRicardo 18:43, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, not notable - Google hits less than 150. Megan1967 02:28, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: Unsure. It's IMO unsafe to vote to delete on the basis of Google, many things are under-represented on the WWW. No vote as yet. Andrewa 02:32, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Perfectly legitimate article. Just becuase you've never heard of him doesn't mean he doesn't merit an article. --L. Pistachio 02:42, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Legitimate article. --L33tminion | (talk) 02:53, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Sounds like a good guy to name a middle school after, but an article about him is outside of the scope of the Wikipedia. --b. Touch 03:01, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. It is hard to say why someone thought this person was interesting enough to write an article about. I'm guessing that it was someone connected with the Middle School that is named after him. It might be a young person who wrote it, and perhaps he or she didn't quite capture what Farquhar achieved on the School Board that made them think to name a Middle School after him one hundred years later. The article was only written today and is the first contribution of this user. I'm going to wait and see if there is any more information forthcoming. Right now, my first instinct is "Don't bite the newbies." --BM 03:25, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment. It has the earmarks of family history research. My take is that the anonymous author is a relative. But the subject did have a school named after him, and threw good parties. -R. S. Shaw 03:47, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, more significant than some of the randoms that the great 1911EB thought were encyclopedia-worthy. Stan 05:24, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, and I look forward to the day we have representatives of "every county or municipality in the world putting up an article for their notable figures" - SimonP 05:34, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. James F. (talk) 12:36, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. jni 13:59, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Article does not establish noteworthiness persisting into the present day. --Angr 16:14, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Detailed, reasonably well written, significant enough to have a school named after him. Good effort by a newbie. A comprehensive encyclopedia needs to be ... well ... comprehensive. 80N 23:54, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep as "harmless". However, I'd really like to see references cited on such an obscure individual. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:00, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, and I concur with Jmabel: I want to see a reference. Antandrus 22:05, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, it's helpful. Wyss 23:41, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• keep. Yuckfoo 01:10, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. -- Necrothesp 03:56, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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