Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Godfrey Robarts Pearse

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The result was delete. Sandstein 12:45, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Godfrey Robarts Pearse

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No clear notability, no secondary sources, primary sourced cited are not even easily accessed. Article was created by one of the many socks of the prolific Candia/Levieux hoax vandal. Phso2 (talk) 09:34, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 10:54, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 10:54, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 10:54, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I'm pretty sure this is a hoax. The author has taken a probably real but equally probably non-notable person[1] and written an essentially fictional biography about him. A knighthood would make him notable, but I can find no evidence of him being knighted. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:32, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. He seems to be real enough - The Times has him attending a levee in 1873. But I can’t find evidence of a knighthood, which would make him notable. Also the article is riddled with what seems to be utter fiction. In particular, the LSE was founded when he would have been in his 50s, which makes his attendance highly suspect. Atchom (talk) 04:04, 24 November 2018 (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.