Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carl Adolph Agardh

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Carl Adolph Agardh
If I were to tell you that Carl Adolph Agardh was a Swedish botanist during the 1800s, you would then know everything there is to read within this substub. What is it about this article that makes it worthy of keeping? GRider\talk 18:50, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with the sentiment that six word (plus a couple of dates) substubs aren't worth adding--better to have a redlink until someone with more to say comes along. However, I also have difficulty with deleting encyclopedic subjects, so I added a bit paraphrased from a machine translation of the fr: WP. There apparently is much more about the guy that is encyclopedic (I couldn't figure out enuf about why it is claimed he was also an economist to add it) so I vote a weak keep on the slightly expanded article. Also, the original contrib is a long-time, respected WP editor, so any questions/comments about the brevity of the original article should probably be raised on his (I'm assuming) Talk page. Niteowlneils 20:09, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, and expand. Noted botanist and economist. Megan1967 00:05, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Notable botanist.  --Viriditas  | Talk 04:50, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Notable botanist. Someday someone will add something. --LexCorp 05:02, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Generally speaking, this amount of biographical information is better to add to an annotated list of people, and start the article, whenever one gets the time, with at least a two- or three-paragraph stub. I have destubbed or at least desubstubbed a number of Swedish scientists. Agardh has been on my to-do-list for a while, together with his son Jacob Georg Agardh. They were both among the leading algologists of the 19th century (CAA probably the leading algologist of his generation). I don't know anything about algae, though, so if somebody who does will fill in that part, I will add the general biographical info from Swedish sources eventually. / u p p l a n d 08:38, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Expand. Notable Swedish botanist and MP. Also on our List of members of the Swedish Academy which also indicates that he was fairly notable in the scientific community. Thst he has an article on the French Wikipedia also tends to indicate notability. Well done Niteowlneils for the rewrite and look forward to Uppland's rewrite. Capitalistroadster 10:59, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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