Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sherbro Tuckers (2nd nomination)


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The result was no consensus‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. No prejudice against speedy renomination per low participation. North America1000 04:13, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Sherbro Tuckers
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Delete for lack of notability. The family does verify, but there is no significant coverage in reliable sources. It fails basic notabilty guidelines. All coverage seems to be incidental, except for the (self published) book that Peter Tucker wrote for friends and family. The 129 page book by Peter L. Tucker, The Tuckers of Sierra Leone, 1665-1914, was published about 1997, but there is no publisher or place of publication data for it, see. It looks like a vanity press publication, no copies were available to me on interlibrary loan. The reference section of the article looks as though the editor/author mostly took the list of book citations from a Google book search of "Tucker + Sherbro" and "Caulkers + Sherbro" and dumped it in the reference section. The specific entries add very little, for example, the entry http://books.google.com/books?id=zmgYSuOAkS8C&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=sherbro+caulkers&source=web&ots=GZBht_Ev8Y&sig=jrOlgtRVvS8nSk_DqQU8c7MynI8 has no mention of the Tuckers, but has language about the Caulkers that is used by the author/editor to describe the Tuckers in the article. The entry http://books.google.com/books?id=npUMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA76&dq=sherbro+tuckers#PPA76,M1 has only this to say about the Tuckers: This is also true of the Tuckers and many others on the west coast of Africa. namely that they had English blood on their paternal side. Or this one http://books.google.com/books?id=QN62ci99H7oC&pg=PA293&lpg=PA293&dq=sherbro+tuckers&source=web&ots=OGbmgW5H6K&sig=o0Hqg0eXHI6HQ5RL-cyliu1HHhI#PPA293,M1 which only says: They, like the Tuckers and the Clevelands, were descendants of European slave dealers, and their pursuits were the same. Some don't discuss the family, but just a specific Tucker, such as http://books.google.com/books?id=C4GuwL1cgnEC&pg=PA36&dq=Sherbro+Cleveland&sig=rsRwn1MsjXJAHkXDy8x7J-J5tDg which talks about Henry Tucker, the notorious slave trader. Based upon extensive searching and review of the available sources, I am convinced that the family is not notable as a group, although the larger Sherbro group and their activities are. They have their own article. Some individual Tuckers have their own articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bejnar (talk • contribs) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 18:44, 10 August 2023 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 20:35, 17 August 2023 (UTC) Relisting comment: Final relist Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 20:33, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
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 * Keep - hasty evaluation but we should kick the can down the road again similarly to the previous AFD in 2013 based on the references that are on the article. Even a family can be notable enough for inclusion. Also I found this https://kdhnews.com/harker_heights_herald/local/vendors-continue-100-year-legacy/article_5285d064-df7a-11e2-8044-0019bb30f31a.html which suggests there might be more sources out there. - Indefensible (talk) 23:54, 31 August 2023 (UTC)


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