Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Howard, 22nd Earl of Suffolk


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The result was redirect to Earl of Suffolk. Liz Read! Talk! 16:57, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Alexander Howard, 22nd Earl of Suffolk

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Nobleman from Britain without a notability claim, fails WP:BIO. Nobles are not inherently notable, and this one does not qualify for WP:NPOL as he has never sat in the House of Lords. The sources found during my BEFORE were insufficient to establish notability: theeperage.com is unreliable per WP:RSP; the Daily Mail was deprecated; the Telegraph  and Wiltshire Live  only give passing mentions. Possible redirect target: Earl of Suffolk. Pilaz (talk) 10:28, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Royalty and nobility and United Kingdom. Pilaz (talk) 10:28, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to his peerage title, Earl of Suffolk. This article consists mostly of genealogy, and the only source currently cited here is a deprecated one (thepeerage.com). If he later becomes the subject of more notable coverage in reliable sources, the article can be re-created at that time. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:23, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Support Redirect - I would agree with the argument put forward above by User:Metropolitan90. Not enough notability for an independent article, but someone who might be searched for so redirecting to the page on the peerage where he is mentioned seems a sensible way forward. Dunarc (talk) 22:59, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Earl of Suffolk: the article clearly does not comply with WP:N, there is nothing here except genealogy, so not much to merge, but the earldom is notable, and the present holder is part of that story. Also, individual earls do tend to attract the attention of independent sources as the years go by, even if not members of the House of Lords, where the non-Irish ones are still electors, so we might as well have some information about where they fit into the wider picture. Moonraker (talk) 13:58, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


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