Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Decatur (1815–1876)

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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn by nominator following improvement with no delete !votes. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 08:23, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Stephen Decatur (1815–1876)

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Unreferenced, and with a dubious claim to be Stephen Decatur's nephew. He co-founded Decatur, Nebraska, but that's a small place. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:36, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 04:55, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nebraska-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 04:55, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I just added a bunch of information and several references to the article. Looks like he was an important pioneer in Nebraska, and the town named for him is the second oldest settlement in Nebraska. A book reference I found gives a different death year for him, so if the article is kept it may be necessary to change the name to Stephen Decatur (1815-1888). --MelanieN (talk) 01:00, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought: his birth year appears to be 1812, and some sources list his death year as 1889 rather than 1888, so those do not seem like good disambiguators. However, it turns out that his birth name was Stephen Decatur Bross and he later dropped the surname "Bross". So I would suggest that if the article is kept it be renamed Stephen Decatur Bross. BTW the article was full of misinformation, including the name of his supposed father; this was apparently a guy who made up stuff about himself, and some of it got into the article. The frontier was full of guys like that; one of the sources I found for him was book called Colorado's Colorful Characters. --MelanieN (talk) 14:49, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Withdraw nomination. Looks good. Kudos to you, MelanieN. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:24, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. This one was fun, he sounds like a real character. No blame to you, the article as nominated was pretty hopeless. --MelanieN (talk) 03:41, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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