Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexandra Haslam Russell

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The result was Delete. Fram (talk) 15:10, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alexandra Haslam Russell (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log) • Afd statistics

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Puff piece on an "editor" by User:Gerald Haslam. 65 total Google hits. Deprodded by User:Jclemens, who must have been confused or something. Abductive (reasoning) 20:01, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:52, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• I thought that I'd tidy up the citations in the article. When I started editing I found a pattern. Not a single one of the sources is about this person. All bar one are about Gerald Haslam. This is obscured by the bare URLs, but in trying to rectify that I came across such things as a Who's Who entry for … one Gerald William Haslam. And they all mention the daughter in passing. Some of them don't even support the content they are linked to. The remaining source cited by the article is actually about a magazine, and it points to Wikipedia numerous times. Searching, I can find no good sources about this person. The Who's Who is blank; and the potted biographies in the books are autobiographies (and scant). There's simply no way to have a biography of this person. Sources for doing so do not exist, and this article has been cobbled together and extrapolated from passing mentions in sources about a different person. This is a person that the world has not documented; so Wikipedia must not, either. Delete. Uncle G (talk) 12:49, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as per Uncle G. Edward321 (talk) 03:27, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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