Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Adams

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 delete. ✗plicit 01:06, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew Adams (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

Subject does not appear to me to rise to the level of encyclopedic notability. His primary claim to notability appears to be friendship with Benjamin Franklin (from which notability can not be inherited). A history of Boston written a century later mentions the subject's death, but notes in a footnote that "Materials are very scanty for a biography of Matthew Adams", with most content relating to the subject's better known family members. BD2412 T 00:46, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. BD2412 T 00:46, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Delete. Lack of significant coverage by reliable sources and the article looks more like a Descriptive Narrative Essay written by his ghost rather than a real informative article inside an encyclopaedia. Raymond Kestis (talk) 00:54, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:49, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Being used as a coatrack for his better-known son ... who was himself Just Another Preacher, and doesn't seem to have made any significant historical mark. Wikipedia is still not a memorial, and there's no sigcov supporting more than that this was Just Some Guy. Ravenswing 21:12, 24 October 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.