Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erasmus Darwin Barlow
There is not one word about anything Barlow may have contributed to any academic field.  Google scholar throws up nothing of significance http://scholar.google.com/scholar?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22Erasmus%20Darwin%20Barlow%22&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=ws.  The genealogical material is irrelevant, since notability is .  The rest of the article reads like a CV, with much of it in fact being nothing more than a  from the BMJ obituary http://www.bmj.com/content/332/7544/798.2/suppl/DC1.  For Wikipedia purposes, notability is supposed to be indicated by a wealth of , not just a reference or two to establish a tenuous toehold for .  Where is the  for his scholarly contributions that should have been accumulating throughout his lifetime?  Instead of that wealth of information, the only thing we have is his obituary--in other words, he made no impact at all apart from dying.  Certainly the intent and spirit of  and  are that notability is a result of a lifetime of accomplishments that have been noted consistently through --and not simply an occasion for a wikilawerying toehold for having "satisfied" one of a dozen requirements for .  Finally, it should be noted that the notability standards of Wikipedia are '''not the same''' as what might pass for notability or significance in the outside world.  For instance, the world might consider him notable for being a descendant of Charles Darwin.  But it takes a lot more than that to satisfy WP guidelines
— User:Qworty, 21:18, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOTINHERITED||WP:COPYVIO||WP:RS||WP:PROF||WP:RS||WP:N||WP:BIO||WP:RS||WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)