Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rodney Fryer Russell


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The result was   delete. Davewild (talk) 16:29, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Rodney Fryer Russell

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Article seems to have originated as a largely genealogical entry by a single purpose editor. The claim to notability is an entry in the 1952 "Who's who", which appears to be based on a single scholarship award. The remainder of the article is unsourced or original research. According to a recent edit there is no known compilations of his work, other than a private record. In my view this all falls well below the sort of credible notability threshold for a Wikipedia profile. Sionk (talk) 09:50, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: The cited 1952 "Who's Who" is an edition of "Who's Who in Art", which as far as I'm aware is not the same as Who's Who (UK). There are many variants of Who's Who, and "Who's Who in Art" may be a vanity publication. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 10:15, 14 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment. I can confirm that he does not have an entry in the actual Who Was Who. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:12, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm having difficulty finding sources online. A quick google search brings up several sites with information on Fryer Russell that are based on the Wikipedia page ( and, for example) This page mentions him apparently independently of Wikipedia, but isn't sufficient to establish any kind of notability by Wikipedia's standards. A search on Dorset Life magazine's website ("the website dedicated to the history, the nature, the landscape, the people, the buildings and all the other facets of the county") also revealed nothing . PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 14:02, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 07:05, 23 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:GNG, WP:BIO and WP:NOTMEMORIAL. It's difficult to even figure out what his claim to notability is: as a poet, a painter? One of his watercolors was sold at auction, but that's hardly enough. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:21, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per all of the above. No online sources, no obvious claim to notability, no indication there are likely to be offline sources sufficient to satisfy WP:GNG or WP:BIO. – Arms &amp; Hearts (talk) 16:56, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.