Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Francis Stokes (2nd nomination)
and encourage improvements under . A sad |lack of effort when improvements are possible is less a reason to delete, than it is to let something be improved over time and through regular editing.  tells us notablity is based upon sources being available, and not upon their being used.   The AFD in 2006 was appropriate enough as the |many now-available sources did not exist at that time and six years ago the article was (then) |TOO SOON.  The redirect was undone by
— User:IronGargoyle, 23:56, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NRVE||WP:NOEFFORT||WP:NRVE||WP:BEFORE||WP:TOOSOON (Wikipedia:Notability)