Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicholas Sension


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:06, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Nicholas Sension

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Does not appear to be notable. I highly doubt that he was only person in the 1600's that was secretly gay. JDDJS (talk) 22:28, 7 March 2016 (UTC)


 * This article is likely in need of some WP:TNT, but it does appear that Mr. Sension has been the subject of a fair bit of scholarship. See, e.g., this article, this article, and this article. -- Notecardforfree (talk) 04:44, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Upon further review of the available sources and the current state of the article, I am going to formally vote for deletion. -- Notecardforfree (talk) 23:29, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete Article is based on 3 modern, scholarly articles all of which draw their evidence from transcripts of the trial of Nicholas Sension for sodomy in 1677.  Now if Arthur Miller were to write a play about Sensions, I could see the notability.  But  3 scholarly articles do not notability create.  Perhaps there is an appropriate merge target?E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:00, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge. It can be reworked and merged to History of gay men in the United States, which can be good, since that article lack in any information about colonial times. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 13:21, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - Can't see how it has enough referencing to pass WP:GNG, but merging it per Arthistorian's suggestion would be okay as well.  Onel 5969  TT me 13:06, 15 March 2016 (UTC)


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