Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/E. A. Sargent

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The result was delete. Swarm ♠ 19:30, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

E. A. Sargent

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This businessman doesn't seem to satisfy WP:GNG and WP:BIO. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:03, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, he doesn't. Questions. I suggest that this article is extremely short, is about somebody who has probably been dead for over a century, has never been remotely promotional, does not seem likely to ever be subverted for promotional purposes, and might at some point attract a knowledgable addition that would shed some more light on the short-lived boom of merchandising of images of Japanese exoticism by foreigners to foreigners -- am I wrong? How does/might the presence of this article detract from Wikipedia? -- Hoary (talk) 22:25, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It would lower the notability standards so that, if allowed to stand, it would open the floodgates to just about anybody. Also see WP:HARMLESS. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:44, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. In the article namespace, this article is linked to only from Adolfo Farsari and yields no information beyond what already is in Farsari's article. If someone were to search for this article with information useful and well-sourced enough that it would demonstrate notability, they would likely be willing to re-create it. That, by the way, looks quite unlikely to me now, as nobody has asserted notability in nine years of E. A. Sargent's article's existence. Daß Wölf (talk) 02:01, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Adolfo Farsari, as Sargent's partnership with Farsari constitutes the whole body of E. A. Sargent, and nothing is added beyond the content already in Farsari's article. Daß Wölf (talk) 02:01, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It's true there are no significant changes to this stub since I created it years ago, but the hope was - and is - that someone (maybe even me) will add more information and flesh it out. A redirect to Adolfo Farsari would be misleading and I see no reason why the little thing can't sit happily as it is until someone is able to take the time to make it bigger. Pinkville (talk) 22:14, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:50, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:50, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete unless more sources can be found. There's nothing really notable that is alleged. Bearian (talk) 19:08, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. In the absence of in-depth third-party coverage, basic notability does not appear to be adequately demonstrated. --DAJF (talk) 22:15, 4 August 2015 (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.