Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Firby (surname)

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The result was merge to Firby, Hambleton. Star Mississippi 15:08, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Firby (surname)

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Little here about the surname, mostly about places and non-notable people. Wire723 (talk) 15:21, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 16:17, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This article has never been about the surname. Right back to the beginning it has been a repository for unsourced and insanely detailed trivia about a hamlet in North Yorkshire. I lived nearby from 1989 until 1996 and my mum still lives within a long hike from it... and I've never heard of it. But that's by-the-by. If the material was sourced, then I'd say merge it into Firby, Hambleton. But it really isn't sourced: there's a lot of semi-related links scattered through the article, but few of them are actually sourcing the statements they appear to be supporting. So I'm not going to argue for what is basically cruft to be merged into the article. Instead, to hell with it: unencyclopedic, badly sourced, more of a fan project than anything else. It can go. — Trey Maturin has spoken 18:40, 27 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Firby, Hambleton. The information and sources in that article can be merged to the actual town. Isn't a surname at all.
Keep I have removed all the other content and added sourced information about the surname. Per WP:NNAME though there isn't anyone currently with an article the article is sourced at James Firby may be notable. Crouch, Swale (talk) 08:25, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:55, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per Trey Maturin. The original version of the article perhaps had some material/sources that the Firby, Hambleton article could be improved with. Crouch, Swale has done a good job of removing all the irrelevant material, but we're then left with a non-notable stub which does not pass GNG. WP:NNAME requires at least two articles matching a surname for notability and as far as I can see we have none for Firby. WJ94 (talk) 11:28, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Trey Maturin. Suonii180 (talk) 12:07, 10 December 2022 (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.