Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Andrew Jackson, Sr.

I'm adding in a late vote here and am going to start a thread on the article talk page opposing a merge, but for starters here's what I originally typed before edit conflicting with the closing admin. --Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 08:08, 31 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep. Sorry, but this is one of those discussions that makes Wikipedia look rather silly. This man was the father of one of the five or so most important political figures in the history of the United States. Any biography of Jackson (and there are hundreds going back nearly 200 years) is going to discuss his father at least in part (and no doubt speculatively to some degree), meaning he has sufficient coverage in reliable sources to establish his notability. It would be extremely easy for us to write a serviceable (albeit probably brief) bio of this man which would be useful inasmuch at it provides some background to President Jackson's heritage. If it makes more sense in the end to merge it into an article on Family of Andrew Jackson then so be it, but we can hardly decide that here when that article does not even exist. Given that we routinely keep biographical articles simply because someone is mentioned a few times in a newspaper, the idea that we would not keep an article on the father of one of the most written-about human beings in world history is absurd. And merging to Andrew Jackson is not a good idea&mdash;small details about Jackson's father do not belong in the seventh American president's main bio article, as there's already too much to cover in his life as it is. --Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 07:39, 31 January 2010 (UTC)