Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Todd (1803–1873)


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The result was   nomination withdrawn as a commenter has found an actual basis for notability and a high-quality source for it. Bearcat (talk) 19:55, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

William Todd (1803–1873)

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Completely unsourced biography of a person whose only stated claim of notability is that he decilined an offer of appointment to the Canadian Senate. We could, of course, still keep the article anyway if it had any sourcing or substance about anything else he'd done in his life besides that -- but if literally all there is to say about him is "he declined a Senate appointment, the end", there's no need for an encyclopedia article about that. Bearcat (talk) 14:49, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete This Canadian William Todd seems potentially notable but not the one in question.--TM 19:48, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Er, yes, that is our boy. User: Namibia may have been misled by the confusing wording in the 2nd paragraph of the bio that tangles the life of Todd's father up with Todd's life. (I had to read that paragraph twice).  But this is certianly a bio about the subject of this page.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:22, 2 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep WP:HEY I added a couple of sources to the page; the bio in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography confirms his notability, imho. I added only a bit of the info on the page.  Still needs a link to the bank and one of the railroads of which he was President.  Plus, there are other sources (older books on New Brunswick and on Canadian constitutional history) from which a better article can be sourced.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:22, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. What's especially strange about this is that even when I checked the page's "what links here" in the process of trying to determine whether there was a basis for notability, our existing projectspace tasklists for the Dictionary of Canadian Biography weren't in the results at all — he actually is in the T list, but redlinked because the compiler of that list used a different disambiguator than the creator of this article did. That, accordingly, is why TM and I both missed his presence in the DOCB. Consider this withdrawn accordingly. Bearcat (talk) 19:55, 2 November 2017 (UTC)


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