Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George A. Sheridan

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 17:35, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)

George A. Sheridan
This sub-stub reads, "George Augustus Sheridan Captain, United States Army Member of Congress", end of article. Are the contribution of these sort of ultra sub-stubs  a benefit or hindrance to the Wikipedia project? Should they be deleted, merged somewhere, or kept to allow for organic growth? --GRider\talk 18:50, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep most people would agree that US congressmen are notable. Sheridan was a Louisiana representative, and an interesting one at that, there was a scandal regarding a contested House seat between him and P. B. S. Pinchback, who was the first black state governer. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  19:11, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Cleanup and expand would be best, but if noone cares to do so, Delete the current poor substub. The comment above mine is more informative about the subject than the current article is. -- Infrogmation 19:15, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * As it has since been turned into a decent article, I change my vote to Keep. Good work, Meelar! -- Infrogmation 20:55, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete if not expanded into an actual article before VfD is up. -20:10, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Note.  Comment above left unsigned by User:R. fiend at the posted date. --GRider\talk 20:15, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * That's weird, why did that happen? Anyway, keep the rewrite. -R. fiend 21:23, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * comment I think we can cut and paste the US congress article on Sheridan since it is a .gov site and should be public domain. Can anyone else confirm that? Mozzerati 20:17, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
 * It's a moot point after Meelar's rewrite, but I believe so. They have a copyright page http://bioguide.congress.gov/copyright.htm but that only talks about images. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  21:00, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * I've rewritten and expanded the entire article, based on the Congressional bio and some random misc. knowledge. The new version should, I hope, be acceptable to all. Meelar (talk) 20:34, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Being a substub would have been no reason for deletion, any now we've got a useful article anyway. Martg76 20:50, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep in agreeance with User:Martg76. Invalid nomination; delist from vfd.  &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 02:17, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep notable enough. Bluemoose 18:22, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. —Markaci 2005-03-14 T 09:49 Z

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