Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lord Ygo III of Galama
Lord Ygo III of Galama, Keep Pier Gerlofs Donia, ''Delete''' the rest. The Lord Ygo III article contains some nonsense and is badly written. It says he lived from (1139-1198), and that he died in 1099. Go back to the first version, and it said he lived (1148-1199). This suggests the dates were improvised, or that if the article was written from reliable sources, they were not closely examined.  It is sourced to family histories without publication info to show that they are reliable and independent sources satisfying . The whole series of genealogical articles should go except for Pier Gerlofs Donia, who seems to be a folk hero with a statue. There have been numerous hoaxes on Wikipedia about supposed historical figures referenced to obscure or madeup references, and there have been recent other cases of people creating huge collections of articles about people sourced to privately printed genealogies and websites, which have been deleted. Perhaps someone able to access sources in Frisian or whatever can find reliable and independent sources by the end of the deletion period. The article on the Siege of Antioch has a number of accessible references, which someone could check to vet the details of this story for plausibility. If kept, this whole set of Galama family articles needs help from a native speaker of English. We can get along for a while without a set of badly written articles, careless with dates, about claimed historical figures who are little known outside a couple of dubious non-English sources which are just family genealogies
— User:Edison, 13:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:A (Wikipedia:Attribution)