Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Blair


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The result was   delete. Editors are invited to write an article about the notable banker of the same name per instead.  Sandstein  09:14, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Alexander Blair

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Notability not established for 5 years.  Puffin  Let's talk! 10:16, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:36, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:36, 5 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which if you are clued up is basically the first place to look for biographies of dead Britons comes up with this: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47577 (those without a subscription can sidestep the paywall to http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/47577) - assuming it's the same chap of course that the OP mentioned (bit difficult to tell in a stub with no information in it). Barney the barney barney (talk) 17:06, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment. I don't actually think this is the same chap with an article in the DNB. That one was a banker who was only 11 at the beginning of the 19th century. This one was an industrialist who apparently played a major role in the Industrial Revolution. -- Necrothesp (talk) 22:35, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment This seems too common a name for a Google search to be productive unless somebody hits lucky or has a notion who it is who might be referred to. For example, it could be the person referred to in passing on the James Keir page of Grace's Guide but that site contains nothing on him. I am not a fan of uninformative and possibly misleading stubs - unless something substantive can be found I suggest either deletion or replacement with information about the one who is in the DNB. --AJHingston (talk) 23:12, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete and replace with the banker. I see some tantalizing scraps of info that may be about the same person, but not enough for an article:
 * "In the summer of 1789, Alexander Blair, an industrialist and a Dissenter, rented Hall Barn ... and therefore became a neighbour of [ Edmund Burke."]
 * "This is almost certainly Mrs Alexander Blair, the widow of a ruined industrialist and speculator ..."
 * He's discussed a bit in James Keir's article. The connection is also mentioned as follows: "In conjunction with his army friend, Alexander Blair, he set up a chemical works at Tipton in 1780 to manufacture alkali and soap." and "... he and Alexander Blair founded the Tipton Chemical Works ..." Clarityfiend (talk) 03:41, 6 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Replace with banker -- Persons with ODNB articles are clearly notable; otherwise ODNB would not have included him, but the present article is not on him, since that Blair was active as Treasurer of the Bank of Scotland 1832-59. Keir is clearly notable, but the partner who financed him was probably not.  I find three referneces to this Blair in Uglow, The Lunar Men, all of which merely say that he was Keir's partner.  Upon replacement, we might have a capnote "For James Keir's partner in his mines and chemical works at Tipton see that article, or something to that effect.  Peterkingiron (talk) 12:09, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
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