Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Van Der Lingen Family


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The result was   delete. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  00:39, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Van Der Lingen Family

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A family had an ancestor in the mid-19th Century notable enough to merit a few paragraphs in the Afrikaans Wikipedia. Therefore, so the logic seems to go, three of his 20-odd-year-old descendants and their parents deserve their own article at en.wiki by virtue of their august ancestor. This Gottlieb Wilhelm Anthonie van der Lingen gentleman may actually be notable enough for an article (though I can't really tell; I don't know Afrikaans), but the focus of this article is a small subset of his descendants, and they seem to all fail WP:N, both individually and collectively. --Dynaflow  babble  10:40, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not Family Tree Maker. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 12:28, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Gottlieb Wilhelm Anthonie van der Lingen has some notability on the account of being the founder of an important educational institute in south africa, but the family article lacks any notability. /me dives into speedy deletion criteria. Fransw (talk) 16:04, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Addition: I still believe it satisfies criteria a7 for speedy deletion, but it has been tried before... Fransw (talk) 16:14, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


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