Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Addington Symonds


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 06:57, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Addington Symonds

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this surname does not exist. People listed have the have been given the surname 'Addington' as a middle name and have the surname 'Symonds' Mayumashu (talk) 14:26, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even if the one namesake is notable, the other is his daughter. Both have their own articles. No need to have a seperate article for the name. Maybe redirect. Niteshift36 (talk) 16:06, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. Your argument is fallacious. Just because you don't know anyone with this surname, doesn't mean that the surname doesn't exist! THe author's surname is, accordint to Amazon, Addington Symonds: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books-uk&field-author=J.%20Addington%20Symonds . Addington can be a forname, equally it can be a part of a non-hyphenated double-barrelled surname. I'm not using this as an argument - because it's a poor one - but at least 20 people in my extended family have this surname. Come up with a better argument than 'its not a surname', please, because it is, and I have as many sources to prove it as you do to prove it's not! Chase me ladies, I&#39;m the Cavalry (talk) 19:31, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * That said, having a page about uch an obscure name is a bit odd. Chase me ladies, I&#39;m the Cavalry (talk) 22:12, 11 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. Webster's Biographical Dictionary, Brewer's Dictionary, the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, and other reference sources agree that J.A.S.'s surname was "Symonds," not "Addington Symonds" (and, frankly, I see nothing on the Amazon search page linked by CML,ITC above that indicates otherwise). According to this biography of J.A.S., so was his daughter's. With no one to list in the "Addington Symonds usage" section of the article, and no reliable sources to back the article up, there seems little point in its existence. Deor (talk) 22:46, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to John Addington Symonds, the only person well known under this name. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:51, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
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