Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sherbro Rogerses


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The result was   delete. CharlieEchoTango ( contact ) 09:24, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Sherbro Rogerses

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Delete the article Sherbro Rogerses for lack of notability. The article has been around since 2007 and has a single source, a web page. However that web page mentions neither "Sherbro" nor "Rogers" nor "Rogerses" and in fact seems to have nothing to do with the Rogers family, although it is about Sierra Leone. In another article by the same editor Sherbro Caulkers (which will be listed soon for Afd), there is a reference to the 1994 book Black Poor and White Philanthropists however a search of that book does not provide information to support this article either. The Sherbro people have their own article, and there it says, for example, The Sherbro intermarried with them [English traders], producing Afro-European clans such as the Tuckers and the Caulkers. however all mentions of the intermarriage were added by the author of this article, and all of them are without citation. After finding the unsupportive citation, I tried to find some material on this family, and while certainly not exhaustive, I didn't get anywhere fast. One mention that I found was From the 1700s onward, Corker girls married prominent European and Afro-European traders such as the Rogers Tuckers and Clecelaands, and produced new Afro-European clans. page 46 in The Caulkers of Sierra Leone by Imodale Caulker-Burnett, a 2010 vanity press (Xlibris Corp.) book. Not a reliable source and not a basis for notability. The Sherbro Rogerses article appears to be about a rather non-notable Sierra Leone family, and appears, to the extent that there is any content, to be original research. --Bejnar (talk) 02:51, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. No relevant sources have been provided. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:14, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 19:33, 31 August 2012 (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, Mark Arsten (talk) 13:49, 7 September 2012 (UTC)


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