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The result was keep. per WP:SNOW and the fact that WP:BEFORE has been argued to apply here. (non-admin closure) Kevin Rutherford (talk) 21:58, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

John Canon[edit]

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Non-notable, unless the eponym of every single town in America gets their own article. Everard Proudfoot (talk) 05:55, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Town founder, not a mere eponym. Speaking of town founders, I'm in the process of embiggening the article.--GrapedApe (talk) 05:59, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Article has been expanded. Notability established.--GrapedApe (talk) 16:40, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy Keep - Please see WP:BEFORE. GrapedApe is a contributing editor to this project. The first two references are reliably sourced. I assumed good faith in declining the WP:CSD. I look forward to seeing what GrapedApe can do with this article within the next seven days before this AfD is completed. ----moreno oso (talk) 06:10, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Existence is not notability. Having founded a small town does not make one notable. Everard Proudfoot (talk) 06:11, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. There's plenty of material in Google books about him [1] [2] [3] including this one that says he was "the founder of three towns, the leader of the Virginia courts, the Military Commissioner of Northwest Virginia during the Revolutionary War". That sounds like enough to me. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:38, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and severely warn the nominator for violating WP:BEFORE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.172.92.157 (talk) 10:01, 13 June 2010 (UTC) [reply]

This editor has been blocked for disruptive editing at several AFD's. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 12:29, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I applaud and approve of Excirial's actions. And, since I can post, I'm not that anon IP who kind of parrotted me. ----moreno oso (talk) 12:58, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep as per above comments. NYCRuss ☎ 12:24, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:09, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:10, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:10, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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• Speedy Keep per above. Well sourced, seems to be plenty notable. --Fiftytwo thirty (talk) 19:43, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I would cut off notability for towns in the U.S. at 20,000 population, which would eliminate Canonsburg, Pennsylvania by a good margin, except that it is the birth place of some interesting people, the site of interesting corporations and a few other points to claim fame. John Canon is notable enough to be mentioned in the history of the town. He is. That is enough. Nearly every town has a book about its history. That does not mean that everyone listed in any book of the history of a town should be written up on Wikipedia. --Fartherred (talk) 01:08, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per David Eppstein. GiantSnowman 04:53, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Although founders of communities of this size aren't notable for being founders, they can be notable if they get sufficient coverage. We seem to consider contemporary pop culture figures notable if they get a few newspaper articles; this guy has several mentions in printed sources that are many decades apart from each other. Nyttend (talk) 11:41, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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