Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Fairholme


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The result was delete.  Majorly  (o rly?) 10:36, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

George Fairholme

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I cannot find sufficient sources to verify notability; the linked article at Answers in Genesis was the only thing I found, and that's a rather dubious source to hang an article on. FisherQueen (Talk) 17:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Subject is referenced here, here, here and here. Subject appears to be one of the chief proponents of the "Great Deluge" school of 19th Century geology, and he is still cited by some dyed in the wool creationists. Caknuck 20:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. The responsibility is for the article to assert notably the article as it exists now does not. It qualifies as a speedy since it is empty.  Vegaswikian 21:01, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete without prejudice to re-create if better sources can be located. Neither the source in the article nor the ones cited above seem particularly reliable nor sufficient to establish notability.  I couldn't find anything much better in a brief search, though it's often hard to find online sources about minor 18th century people.  This article is barely a stub, so we lose very little in deleting it.  I think it's better to start over if someone wants to do some research.-- Kubigula (talk) 22:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete without prejudice to proper recreation. Of the four sources cited, above #2 and #3 are forum postings and thus not reliable.  #4 only mentions Fairholme trivially (citing him 3-4 times).  #1 also mentions Fairholme trivially.  My brief search did not turn up anything worthwhile, though Google is rarely a good measure of notability for anyone born before the latter half of the 20th century.  Given how little content the article contains, I am also not inclined to dig deeper.  A JSTOR search for "George Fairholme" produces 3 results.  I checked the one I thought to be most relevant, titled "The Scriptural Geologists: An Episode in the History of Opinion", but it only seems to mention Fairholme trivially (admittedly, I only skimmed the article).  -- Black Falcon 00:09, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


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