Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Lawrence Schieffelin

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. asilvering (talk) 21:53, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Lawrence Schieffelin

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There is virtually no independent secondary coverage of this individual. The sources in the article (and in the WP:BEFORE search) are primarily primary-source documents, except for a book by one of the subject's family members (who is also the self-declared COI creator of this article and a whole WP:WALLEDGARDEN of articles about his family members). The other book source is published by an imprint of unreliable WP:ARCADIA Press. Without [WP:SIGCOV]] independent, secondary sources, this subject fails WP:GNG and WP:NBIO. Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:36, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, Law, and New York. Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:36, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the only claim to notability I can discern is that he was president of the Board of Aldermen. There are plenty of primary documents that mention him as an alderman. There are some secondary documents that mention him on archive.org, but in the context of geneology of Jacob's family rather than as an alderman. But nothing lengthy that I could find. Note that there is also a different person named Georrge Richard Scheiffelin. Oblivy (talk) 05:25, 17 September 2024 (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.