Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elijah W. Flake


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The result was DELETE. Insufficient argument made for notability. on top of which at least half the material is pasted from a web site. Herostratus 07:24, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Elijah W. Flake

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Not every Civil War soldier is encyclopedic. This article, proffered by an apparent relative, is a doubtful case regarding notability at best. His service is unexceptional; his (I assume) prominent relative doesn't make him notable. The only thing that even brings him close to notability is that he dictated his experiences of the Monitor/Merrimac battle, and that account doesn't seem greatly relied on by historians. I found it on a long list of references about the Monitor. Wehwalt 19:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, non-notable. Soltak | Talk 22:49, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Someone who wrote a first hand history of one of the most important 19th century naval battles 52 years after the event might be expected to be a cited source in histories of the first battle between ironclads, so I am surprised to find few Google hits and no cites in the Proquest database of publications or in Google Scholar. He is apparently mentioned on p. 103 of "Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg (Paperback) by Rod Gragg," per Amazon.com. Edison 23:25, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Not surprising. If Flake didn't have a post which allowed him to observe much, his pamphlet probably wouldn't have been too informative.  And his memory likely had faded in 52 years.--Wehwalt 00:27, 16 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete, hundreds of people served on the Virginia, and many veterans wrote pamphlets (most distributed locally). Being present at a famous battle isn't notability. --Dhartung | Talk 00:24, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless sourced... Addhoc 19:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
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