Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander McRae Dechman


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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗ plicit  14:33, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Alexander McRae Dechman

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Poorly sourced biography of a person notable primarily as an early settler of an individual midsized city. As always, this is not an automatic notability freebie in and of itself, and requires him to get over WP:GNG on his sourceability -- but the only references present here at all are genealogical documents on FamilySearch or Find-a-Grave used solely to support his birth and death dates, which are not notability-supporting sources, and the article has been tagged for sourcing and notability issues since 2016 without ever having any new sources added to boost his notability. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to be a subject of actual media coverage about him. Bearcat (talk) 13:56, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Nova Scotia. Bearcat (talk) 13:56, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete People who helped settle places are not default notable for such, we need reliable sources about this fact to jutify an article, ones that give signifcant coverage of them. We lack such sources in this case.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:40, 31 May 2022 (UTC)


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