Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fitch Poole


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The result was keep. Passes WP:NPOL and WP:GNG as highlighted in discussion. (non-admin closure) ~ Amkgp  💬  20:57, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Fitch Poole

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Article about a "journalist, humorist and politician", not reliably sourced as passing our notability criteria for any of those occupations. This basically just documents that he existed, while providing no evidence that he ever accomplished anything that would make his existence noteworthy (it even completely fails to explain what he ever did to earn the "politician" label at all) -- and it is referenced entirely to primary sources (directories, the self-published websites of directly affiliated organizations, user-generated genealogy trees) that are not support for notability, with not even one reliable or independent source shown to establish that his work has ever been externally deemed significant by anybody he wasn't professionally or personally related to. Bearcat (talk) 18:48, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:48, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep. He has an entry in the Biographical Dictionary of America, satisfying WP:ANYBIO#3. According to the dictionary, he was "a representative in the state legislature, 1841-43", so he also satisfies WP:POLITICIAN. pburka (talk) 20:38, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
 * My search on Google Books turns up mentions of Poole in History of Essex County, Massachusetts, George Peabody, Founder of Modern Philanthropy, and other books. I also found obituaries for Poole in the New-York Tribune and the Boston Globe through a search on Newspapers.com. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 00:16, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per pburka. DiamondRemley39 (talk) 22:48, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per . AleatoryPonderings (talk) 05:14, 20 August 2020 (UTC)


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