Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Hutchins


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was Keep, and stub until copyright issue is resolved. —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-02 07:24Z 

Thomas Hutchins

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1.) Possibly copyright infringement 2.) Lack of verifiable information from reliable sources Seraphim Whipp 13:43, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep, though the article needs editing and does indeed need to be rewritten to remove copyvio (one section is from here, I've discovered). The source indicated in the article appears to be a reasonable one to start with, and I can find quite a few others with a quick look around. Professional Surveyor magazine; the link above where the copyvio has come from is another reasonable source, and there are approximately 800 Google hits to "Thomas Hutchins' surveyor - not bad for a guy who died a couple hundred years ago. From this glance, he appears to be one of the key surveyors of much of the United States - that's pretty notable. It needs stubifying right now, though, to remove the copyvio. Tony Fox (arf!) 21:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
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 * Keep Seems notable enough to meet WP:BIO, however the copyright issue is disturbing. Prehaps it would work if the closing admin squashed this history and made it a one or two line stub. Willie Stark 23:57, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, though desperately in need of cited material from reputable sources. Smee 21:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC).


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