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The result was delete. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hezekiah M. Washburn[edit]

While I am sure that he is a fine human being, I can't see where the subject passes notability standards. As an author, his book A Knight in the Congo (also nomintated for deletion) ranks #3,701,636 at Amazon and there is a lack of reviews or reliable sources on it. Ghits for Washburn result in just over 500 returns, mostly wikipedia, its mirrors and geneology sites. Gnews comes up with no returns. The article itself asserts no notability aside from the aforementioned book and allegedly being called a knight by the King of the Congo, but the article can't source it and can only approximate what year it happened in. Niteshift36 (talk) 14:12, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Writing one book and being a missionary does not satisfy the guideline for biographies or notability in general. Found nothing promising at Google book search, or at Google News Archive. Agree, he sounds like he was a fine person. Edison (talk) 15:59, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:11, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails WP:BIO. No assertion of notability. Johnuniq (talk) 08:32, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.