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The result was merge to Tonto Natural Bridge. Randykitty (talk) 14:17, 6 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

David Gowan[edit]

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The article does not even make a claim to notability. This guy was someone who lived off isolated in a cabin. His existence was noted in a small town newspaper where he lived, but he did nothing that even remotely comes close to showing notability. John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:55, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I did find this source [1] from find a grave. That is not considered a reliable source. It focuses Gowan on the history of the Tonto Natural Bridge.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:00, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 04:15, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 04:15, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Scotland-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 04:15, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Arizona-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 04:15, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, does have local interest, but stops short of any wider interest. Geschichte (talk) 06:53, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Seems to have been renowned for his supposed discovery of Tonto Natural Bridge e.g. [2],[3], [4].----Pontificalibus 12:27, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - While the second and third refs above are only mentions, the first is a very in-depth source. In addition, he is mentioned at length in an Arizona Republic article in 1938 on the death of his nephew, David Gowan Goodfellow (see here), there's also a nice article in The San Bernadino County Sun, here, and another in the Republic, here, and this in The Brownsville Herald, which was also printed in other papers such as The Cincinnati Enquirer. Then there is this article in Camden NJ's Courier-Post. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:06, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Then there is the interesting confusion over his death in the Arizona Republic, where he was confused with his nephew see this, but the confusion was corrected in an unsigned (at least I can't find the end of the letter) letter to the editor.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:18, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete -- As far as I can see he was merely a NN homesteader. If the natural bridge is notable, there might be merit in a brief merge to the article on it as its finder. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:38, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Tonto Natural Bridge where he is already mentioned in the history section. He doesn't seem to be very significant beyond discovering this feature; I don't see enough to justify an article. MB 21:27, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge as suggested. Bearian (talk) 17:38, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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