Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Shirley, 14th Earl Ferrers (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 21:28, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Robert Shirley, 14th Earl Ferrers
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Unnotable British nobleman, fails WP:BIO due to a lack of significant coverage in independent, reliable, secondary sources. Doesn't meet WP:NPOL either, since he never sat in the House of Lords due to inheriting his titles in 2012, way after the House of Lords Act 1999. The 2014 AfD discussion was a WP:ITSNOTABLE fest.

Source assessment follows.

Pilaz (talk) 14:14, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Pilaz (talk) 14:14, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Royalty and nobility-related deletion discussions. Pilaz (talk) 14:14, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
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 * Delete Having read the 2014 AfD, the arguments centred around "he's an earl so he must be notable. There must be sources somewhere" There is no policy on Wikipedia that gives a free pass on notability to members of the British peerage. Shirley demonstrably fails WP:GNG. There's more coverage of the average TikTok "star". AusLondonder (talk) 14:51, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom's very clear and detailed assessment of the sources provided. We shouldn't have an article if the bulk of it is listing the subject's kids and grandkids. Toadspike (talk) 14:55, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - I concur with what has been said above. If he were to become a member of the House of Lords then an article would be appropriate, but currently he does not have the notability and the fact he holds the earldom can be adequately covered by the Earl Ferrers article. Dunarc (talk) 23:42, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. GNG is failed and notability is not inherited. JoelleJay (talk) 00:29, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination, fails neither WP:BIO nor WP:NPOL. Brian O'Conner  23:39, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Earl Ferrers. HandsomeFella (talk) 21:03, 30 March 2022 (UTC)


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