Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Willing Byrd

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. Tony Sidaway|Talk 12:14, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mary Willing Byrd
This person lived in a particular house in Colonial Williamsburg. Delete as too far removed from notability. Gazpacho 13:15, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC) Delete. notability. Hardly she was a single executrix. Accomplishments? Mikkalai 02:56, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Her notability is that she was a female plantation manager thus the note about the sale of her plantation and slaves are of consequence. Keep Clipartfan
 * She was executrix of her husband's estate. Was that unusual? Gazpacho
 * Then also delete September 10 because it lists her as a notable person that was born on that date. Clipartfan
 * Delete the whole article because one person in it isn't notable? That's a bit extreme, isn't it?  That would be like deleting the Colonial Williamsburg article, which has not been proposed.  Delete Mary Willing Byrd, article does not establish notability.  RickK 20:47, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Clipart, an ounce of improvement in the article is worth a pound of spite. Now that I've had time to run a Google search, it turns out there might be more to this person. By all means, add what you know. Gazpacho 21:10, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless notability established. Radiant_* 08:22, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC) Weak keep as rewritten; I assume that her situation was somewhat unique - has it set precedent?  Radiant_* 09:14, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, interesting person and important. Kappa 23:19, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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