Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lawrence Washington (1498)


 * 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 delete. Randykitty (talk) 16:43, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Lawrence Washington (1498)

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See John Washington (1475) and associated AfD page. Fails WP:BIO, again no need to have a page for anyone's 5x great-grandfather, really. Etzedek24 (Would it kill ya to leave an edit summary?) 20:01, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Notability is not inherited, so people who have no notability claim in their own right do not get Wikipedia articles just because they happen to be ancestors of notable people. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a genealogy site — Lawrence Washington would have to have achieved something encyclopedic in his own right, not just be a branch of somebody else's family tree, to qualify for a standalone article about him. Bearcat (talk) 20:41, 6 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete Being George Washington's great-great-great-great-great grandfather is not notable. There are no other claims of notability in the article.  A search turns up just genealogy sites. -- Whpq (talk) 21:14, 6 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOTINHERITED. Only one great to the nth degree grandfather is notable. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:48, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per Whpq. Also, the article has no sources. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:14, 7 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Agricolae (talk) 07:16, 7 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete - WP:NOTGENEALOGY Agricolae (talk) 07:16, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Hhkohh (talk) 15:08, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Hhkohh (talk) 15:08, 7 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete Wikipedia is not a geneological database.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:02, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - TNT, no sources in article, and I don't see much that could be sourced about this individual beyond being an ancestor.Icewhiz (talk) 12:22, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - Being an ancestor of someone famous does not make someone notable and there is nothing in the article to suggest any other grounds for notability. Also as noted above there are no sources to support the claim made. Dunarc (talk) 19:40, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:31, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination MensanDeltiologist (talk) 19:17, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - he's one of many remote ancestors of a famous descendant. Bearian (talk) 20:21, 11 July 2018 (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.