Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edward Thaddeus Barleycorn Barber


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The result was   no consensus. No prejudice against speedy renomination. (non-admin closure) Michaelzeng7 (talk) 21:51, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Edward Thaddeus Barleycorn Barber

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Tagged for notability for 5 years; can't establish notability Boleyn (talk) 14:51, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. I couldn't find any coverage of him, and it isn't really clear what his claim to notability is. --Michig (talk) 17:19, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete, regretfully. He sounds like an interesting person, and admittedly it is hard to find information about someone of his generation, but almost nothing in this article is verified. Even the article itself repeatedly says "little is known" about this and "it is believed" that. Sounds like part of a series about people named Barleycorn, but his relationship with the others isn't clear so I can't see any target for a merge. --MelanieN (talk) 01:16, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep -- Looks like a forerunner of an ethnic minority to reach a high educational status. It certainly needs a lot more citations.  Peterkingiron (talk) 13:57, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Courcelles 01:35, 20 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep – I've added three more references after doing a brief search. The two from The York Herald (1887 and 1888) refer to his time in Elmfield College and are contemporaneous newspaper reports. Would anyone in Edinburgh be able to pop into the University to get fuller citations for the "University of Edinburgh Record Library" references? It's a bit too far for me to travel. We shouldn't be deleting articles just because Google doesn't hand us everything on a plate. Let's find a few more references and keep this fascinating article. — Hebrides (talk) 14:54, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
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