Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Charles Guthridge


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The result was   keep. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 22:22, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Richard Charles Guthridge

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A farm worker with a few descendants and of no notability Crusoe8181 (talk) 10:41, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 19:08, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
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 * Keep The nominator may well have a low opinion of farm workers but the subject was "recognised in 1998 by the Premier of Victoria in Australia as one of the earliest and most significant pioneers of the State". Few descendants is also no barrier to notability although thirteen children does not strike me a "few". There are sufficient independent, significant, reliable sources (in relation to his commemoration) for notability to be supported. Thincat (talk) 10:17, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep: Per Thincat and a check of Trove showing multiple sources. --LauraHale (talk) 20:38, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment- I don't have a low opinion of farmworkers, I was born on a farm and trace my ancestry back to 1250 through a family of predominantly farmworkers. Anybody can have a commemorative plaque erected for dear old granddad and if one of the family happens to know the Premier and an election is in the offing then the Premier may well unveil the plaque. The fact remains that Guthridge did nothing of note, arrived quite late after Victoria was already a State, the gold rushes were old news and he farmed  a bit of scrub in a settled area of the state. I have 21 ancestors who came to Australia from 26 January 1788 until a final late straggler in 1848 and who had sufficient descendants in Australia to populate a small town when Guthridge was still in nappies- if I was to copy/paste a couple of thousand genealogy articles of my earlier antecedents to Wikipedia, even with Trove references, would the community suggest they be kept? Perhaps John Nichols (Scarborough, 1788) goes close to notability but I am no hurry to create an article for him Crusoe8181 (talk) 10:02, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Alpha_Quadrant   (talk)  01:03, 19 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep, per multiple sources. If the nominator does indeed have lots of ancestors who can boast a similar number of mentions in reliable sources, I invite them to get writing!  Lankiveil (speak to me) 00:53, 27 February 2012 (UTC).
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