Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sidney A. Beeers
None of the cited sources provide any biographical detail on the subject, nor does any other non-primary source I have found.  The ''Scientific American'' item is a summary of the invention that only gives the inventor's name and address as it appears on the patent documentation (not his only address - he seems to be living somewhere else in every record I find).  The second reference is that patent itself, and again the only information it provides about the subject is his name and address. The third reference is a list of patents relevant to railroads, and gives nothing more than his name, and the fourth is a map that he drafted, which has his name on it.  A Google Books search for "Sidney A. Beers" returns just eleven hits that name him, which are all either a summary of the American patent or mention of the map without further describing Beers or providing any further details on the man. A search using his full middle name turns up another 13 hits, all of them British sources either listing or briefly describing the same patent when he applied for it in Britain.  He did have a passport application and shows up in censuses, Brooklyn city directories, and the 1863 tax rolls, but this is just the typical detritus of a run-of-the-mill mid-19th century life and does not constitute personal 
— User:Agricolae, 23:02, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOTABILITY (Wikipedia:Notability)