Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jannion Steele Elliott


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The result was   keep. -- Ed (Edgar181) 20:59, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Jannion Steele Elliott

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"Withdrawn by nominator" see discussion below, new sources identified.'-- &mdash; Gaff ταλκ 15:27, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Self-published author of some non-notable books? &mdash; Gaff ταλκ 07:52, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment He doesn't meet WP:GNG or WP:AUTHOR. There could possibly be a case for WP:PROF #1 if he is demonstrated to be an authority on the birds of Bedfordshire. His obituary states that he wrote for journals. However, I haven't as yet found enough to prove WP:PROF. He has 67 hits on Google books,, many because of the family he was born into and because he lived in a historic home, but also because of his research. Boleyn (talk) 09:17, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
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Comment Of Jannion Steele Elliott, the British ornithologist Bruce Campbell stated 'On June 4th, 1903, Jannion Steele-Elliott, the great Bedfordshire naturalist and his friend Ronald Bruce Campbell, my father, spent the day at Southill Park and found nests with eggs of 27 different species of bird, a feat which can have few parallels in British field ornithology.’ MJT21 (talk) 07:42, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment Some notes above refer to not being able to find journals. Some of the selected works were stated in the entry: *Purple Heron in Herts, 1903; *Local Duck Decoys, 1936;
 * Bedfordshire vermin Payments: Concerning the Destruction of 'vermin' by Parish Officials During the XVI-XIX Centuries, with Extracts from Their Accounts, 1936 MJT21 (talk) 07:45, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment Elliott was a Tring correspondent (1899-1942) - Natural History Museum Archives MJT21 (talk) 08:11, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment In their book, "The Birds Of Bedfordshire" (1991), Paul Trodd and David Kramer stated that 'the works of Jannion Steele Elliott were our base reference and it is only now that we can appreciate the importance of his writings when comparing the status of species than with those of today' MJT21 (talk) 08:12, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think he met the guidelines for ornithologists, in particular because he has an entry in the book A Bibliography of British Ornithology by Mullens & Swann (1917), one of the notable British bibliographies about the ornithologists from the 19th and 20th century --Melly42 (talk) 19:08, 8 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep. He had a dedicated page (his obituary) on www.britishbirds.co.uk/, which in itself would make him notable according to WP definitions, as far as I understand. It sounds to me that he was an important collector. Snowman (talk) 14:28, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
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