Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/D.R. Fussell


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The result was   delete. v/r - TP 22:07, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

D.R. Fussell

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I do no see any notability of the person mentioned neither are there any references given, does not pass the criterion of being included in the Wikipedia. Tashif (talk) 07:13, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete as not notable. His achievements appear to be 1. graduating from Oxford University, 2. playing once at the Wimbledon tennis championships as a qualifier where he lost in the second round, 3. being proprietor of and headmaster from 1940-54 of a small school for boys aged up to 13. --AJHingston (talk) 08:38, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

The reason I added details of DR Fussell is that he was mentioned in the All England Lawn Tennis Championship, 1929, as having been in the second round and although there was a Wikipedia link to his name there was no information about him so I added it. The school he was Headmaster of was not 'a small school' but one of the finest prep schools in England, Southey Hall Prep School so please get your facts right before making such statements. The school ran from 1926 to 1955 and I had intended to add a link to it later on.
 * I shall defer to others on whether appearance in the second round at Wimbledon in 1929, when it was an amateur championship, meets Wikipedia notability criteria in WP:Notability (sports). It is possible. The headmastership is more problematic. Normally, schools for this age group do not qualify for an entry in Wikipedia and I understood that the roll was about 70 which in Wikipedia terms is very small. However, as there is at least one history of the school on line (the existence of a webpage and fuller PDF version must count as a single source) then if there is at least one other account discussing the school in detail it might be possible to justify an article on the school. Headteachers do not normally qualify for an article in their own right, though, and the only event of note I found during his headship concerns the circumstances of his leaving which I think should be treated as unverified and not notable under the WP:EVENT rule and others. It might be difficult to omit it altogether in an article if only to make clear that his departure was precipitate. I had avoided mentioning this previously, but since you felt that his headmastership was significant I did feel that I had to draw attention to that aspect since others need to consider the nature of the notability. --AJHingston (talk) 18:01, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Just not notable. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:34, 18 June 2011 (UTC).
 * Delete. Too little coverage to show notability under any of WP:PROF, WP:BIO or WP:ATHLETE. Nsk92 (talk) 21:57, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
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