Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Major Turner Staubenzie


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The result was   delete. The article has been deleted as 'created by serial hoaxer' who has, as Nick-D notes, been blocked for this behaviour. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 13:16, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Major Turner Staubenzie

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(PROD removed without explanation by creator) Unreferenced, Non-notable soldier. A google search turns up 1 site which isn't a Wikipedia mirror. No news/scholar hits, but one books hit. Seems to have done nothing extraordinary in his career as a soldier. Patar knight - chat/contributions 00:20, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep at least for now, giving the article creator time to add WP:RS that establish WP:N. This article was just created, and I think cleanup is more appropriate than immediate deletion. Aleta  Sing 00:32, 10 March 2009 (UTC) Note if kept, the article should be renamed to Turner Staubenzie without the title. Aleta  Sing  00:38, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Scotland-related deletion discussions.  —Aleta  Sing  00:47, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions.  —Aleta  Sing  00:52, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep if some sources can be provided. This user has also created several more entries formatted in almost the same manner and also unsourced Chapple Norton, Thomas Pringle, Edward Mathews, and Major John Maitland. For what it's worth, I'm correcting the spelling and spacing issues on these. Wperdue (talk) 01:13, 10 March 2009 (UTC)wperdue
 * Keep - per Aleta, is just a stub in the making.  Math Cool  10  Sign here! 05:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Doesn't meet WP:BIO and the officer seems to have had a fairly unremarkable career so there's no reason to assume that sufficient reliable sources will exist. Editors have a responsibility for providing sources for all material they add under WP:PROVEIT, so newness is no excuse for keeping articles on people who don't appear to meet the inclusion criteria. Nick-D (talk) 07:06, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fairly junior officer with an apparently normal career. Not especially notable. -- Necrothesp (talk) 17:23, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above. - Buckshot06
 * Delete. The American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars have been written about extensively, so I would expect a Google Books search to be able to find at least a mention of the subject's name if he were notable, but it finds nothing. The fact that the article is limited to bare facts about his birth, marriage and death and his military career suggests that this is the result of some genealogical research based on primary sources such as registries and military records. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:49, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Yeah, that was my impression as well. Nick-D (talk) 10:10, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment The editor who created this article has been blocked for creating a large number of hoax articles, including fake biographies. This appears to be one of their hoaxes (see also: Articles for deletion/Thomas Pringle (Royal Navy officer), Articles for deletion/Asher Holmes and Articles for deletion/Burning of the Valleys). Nick-D (talk) 23:26, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


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