Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jao de la Porta


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was Speedy keep due to lack of an actual nomination for deletion. Non-admin closure. Metropolitan90 14:57, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Jao de la Porta

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DE LA PORTA BROTHERS. Moses (Morin) and his younger brother Jao (Joseph) De la Porta financed the first settlement by Europeans on Galveston Island in 1816. The brothers were born in Portugal of Jewish parentage and found their way to Texas by a circuitous route. At a young age they moved to Paris, where they received their schooling. They later sailed to Brazil, to the British West Indies, and to New Orleans. The brothers financed the privateering venture of Louis Michel Auryqv and José Manuel de Herrera to San Luis Island, later called Galveston, in 1816. Aury set up a privateering camp on September 12 and was named military and civil governor of Texas and Galveston Island. Jao may have served as Aury's secretary of state. In December, Gen. Francisco Xavier Minaqv arrived and persuaded Aury to join him in invading Mexico. They lost the battle, and Moses lost heavily in the enterprise. He left the island and died soon after.

Jao took over his brother's interests. While Aury was away, privateer Jean Laffiteqv sailed down the Texas coast and set up camp in Matagorda Bay. Jao arrived at the camp and sold the De la Porta-Aury expedition's camp and supplies Laffite. The Laffite commune took possession of the island on May 15, 1817, forcing Aury to abandon the Galveston camp. On May 15, 1818, Laffite appointed Jao supercargo for the Karankawa Indian trade. When Laffite left Galveston Island in 1820, Jao became a full-time trader. Bhaktivinode
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 10:06, 20 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I am really confused. What is the nominator trying to do, nominate the article for deletion, or write the article on the deletion discussion page?? The editor who posted the AFD tag on the article is not the same editor who created the discussion page (this second editor being the sole contributor to the article nominated). Can someone figure this one out? Failing that, merge deletion 'nomination' to article. -- saberwyn 11:29, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I created the Jao de la Porta article and somebody posted an AfD nomination onto it. They failed to post anything on my talk page and they have a short wikipedia history of no more than a few days.  I thought it was just vandalism, so I responded onto the discusssion page with the quote from Texas Handbook Online (the first entry above) to show that the article has both notability and is referenced.  I still think this is a notable and cited article that should remain.  Thanks for considering the above. Bhaktivinode 14:23, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep no-one has actually said why they want this article deleted, and the user who tagged the article also did this, so they're not taking AfD seriously. (If a user tags an article for AfD and doesn't write a nomination shortly afterwards it's better just to remove the nomination statement.) Hut 8.5 14:54, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.