Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meek family of York
if this article was on the topic of 'James Meek the father', or his son Sir James Meek, it would pass  as a biography of a Lord Mayor of York. This is not either of those articles. It is an article on an otherwise-obscure family, to which notability is  from its two notable members. It is not uncommon for prominent people to be the descendants of other prominent people (Thomas Pitt, Pitt the Elder and Pitt the Younger would be an obvious example), but it would be duplicative,  and against current practice to have an article on a family unless that family contains so many prominent members that an article is necessary to keep track of the relationships (the Darwin–Wedgwood family and related Keynes family being obvious examples). The necessity of making such a -distinction should be obvious from the sheer number of conceivable groupings that might yield a couple or so notable members, to which we would be opening the floodgates to. Let us write on the subject of what, and who, is notable -- not on the subject of their family trees or other otherwise-obscure groupings to which they might belong to
— User:Hrafn, 14:20, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:POLITICIAN||WP:NOTINHERITED||WP:INDISCRIMINATE||WP:NOTINHERITED (Wikipedia:Notability)