Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Costin


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The result was delete. S warm  ♠  01:23, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

William Costin

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Doesn't appear to be a notable individual.  Jd 027  (talk) 18:51, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep: The article needs a lot of work, but the man was eulogized by John Quincy Adams, and was related to Martha Washington, which puts him on a footing similar to the Hemmings family, who is well-represented here. The article appears to be mostly copied (badly) from "Notable African Americans in Washington, DC," but there are other online sources. I will clean it up a little, maybe he'll seem more notable if he has a better article. ubiquity (talk) 19:15, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete (changed opinion): The creator of the article seems to want to do a lot of original research here, and is making the article very confusing in an attempt to reconcile disparate sources (some of them primary). I don't think we're going to wind up with a coherent article here, let alone one that clearly indicates Costins's notability. ubiquity (talk) 19:29, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. &mdash;&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·E·C) 19:29, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Washington, D.C.-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:52, 25 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep But the article needs clean up.Sofiamar (talk) 23:18, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete no claim of notability in the article, lots of people get obits in newspapers, and lots of people are somehow related to other people, sometimes even famous or notable ones, but notability is WP:NOTINHERITED, also the article seems to be mostly WP:OR with only a very few pieces of fact and things like "is said to" but "source could not be found" Kraxler (talk) 13:45, 31 July 2015 (UTC)


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