Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Euclid D. Farnham
As a life-long Vermont resident, I can attest that Euclid is indeed considered notable throughout the region, including much of VT and NH.  It is in fact absurd that the debate should be whether his acting or his awards merit sufficient notability, although I understand that stems from the |notability criteria.  This seems, in part, a conflict of media.  Wikipedia must depend on external sources for credibility, but Euclid's most significant accomplishments include turning the Tunbridge Fair into one of New England's half-dozen most significant fairs and being one of the only collectors of a vast amount of Vermont history, especially Civil War correspondences and oral history about its transformations over the last century.  Neither of these are documented per se, and yet he is widely known in the region, he is a walking repository of knowledge gathered and known by no one else, and he is likely the leading expert in these fields of Vermont history.  That said, although there are naturally far fewer online sources to show this than those in print or in person (round up a random group of prominent Civil War historians, for instance, and see how many know him) the sources which are available, as
— User:Jessamyn, 18:04, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)