Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Boys of Bonnington
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- 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. —Ganesha811 (talk) 14:54, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
William Boys of Bonnington
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15th-century English landowner. There are no reliable sources with sustained coverage of the kind that would satisfy WP:BASIC. The article is essentially put together from a local history webpage (which does not focus solely on the subject, and even if it did would not establish notability), an antiquarian article about an object in a church associated with the subject, and Ancestry.com and FindaGrave (which is in earlier revisions but has been removed from the article by another editor as an unreliable source). So I don't think there's enough to establish notability here. Dionysodorus (talk) 02:05, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
- Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Royalty and nobility and England. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:24, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
- Support. Sorry William, but I don't think you and three of your mates buying a pair of gloves off "Thomas Quadryng the Elder" is sufficient coverage for a Wikipedia article. article very clearly lacks notability to the point where I don't think more needs to be said unless someone objects and comes forward with sources ⹃Maltazarian ᚾparleyinvestigateᛅ 09:56, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
- Delete - he appears in these Hathitrust results for old books/records (12 results, 8 of which appear to be unique) but all of the mentions are trivial (no more than 1 sentence): saying he owned some land, was maybe married to someone, and was someone else's ancestor. Doesn't seem to meet notability guidelines. Chao Garden (talk) 15:29, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
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