Deletion of Joseph Biden Sr.

Comment: as per others, especially . Used references are also in majority connected with Joe Biden Jr. Doesn't seem notable to me as an independent article
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:NOTINHERITED)

Comment: it's been a |fairly long consensus that the parents of United States Presidents are notable. If |the consensus has changed I need to see at least four arguments. At worse, it could be merged, but I want to be convinced because this would be a change of consensus since at least 2007. A change in the policy should have a very high standard, and ''many'' long-standing editors would have to disagree with me
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:OUTCOMES||WP:CCC)

Comment: to Family of Joe Biden. I don't see  as being particularly relevant here since, for better or for worse, Biden Sr. has indeed received coverage in reliable sources sufficient to meet the GNG. (The coverage in the NYT, the Independent, etc. makes that clear.) But notability is not a guarantee that a stand-alone article is appropriate: per , it may be better to merge the information to a page where additional background and context can be provided. Since (as appears to be uncontested) Biden Sr. has only received sigcov because of his son, it's far better to merge this article into a broader one, allowing for him to be situated in context instead of isolating him in the abstract. In other words, this is a case where "other information" and "related topics" "provide needed context": discussing the impact of Biden's family on him is best done in a single location, where all relevant events and family members can be considered holistically
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:NOTINHERITED||WP:NOPAGE)

Comment: Does not pass  criteria
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: Despite my initial leanings being toward keep ("I mean of course we have an article on William Jefferson Blythe Jr.", ), I'm now in concurrence that there aren't enough |independent sources to prove this passes the relatively low bar for such a figure at . In this case, a merge is preferred to an outright delete
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:OTHERSTUFF||WP:IS||WP:GNG)

Comment: Not independently notable, and  runs up the ancestral chain as well as down
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:NOTINHERITED)