Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hicks Withers-Lancashire
what exactly is this man notable '''for'''? The "Times" obituary makes it very clear that he did nothing that was so out of the ordinary as to make him notable by Wikipedia standards: he had a long, respectable and interesting (but not unusually distinguished) career as an army vet and a happy retirement with horses. It looks as though he got the obituary because he was present at most of the battles of the Crimea incl the Charge of the Light Brigade - one of the other obits gives more details and quotes his reminiscences. He did also invent a safety stirrup - but in the absence of a lot more information on it I don't think that's enough. As for the other claims, a "Times" obituary from the 19th and early 20th centuries is not a guarantee of Wikipedia notability, however often the opposite is asserted: saying it does not make it so. Nor does  say that multiple mediocre obituaries / sources amount to notability: it says that inclusion in the DNB or equivalent national biographical dictionary is what is required, and a "Times" obituary is not that
— User:Ingratis, 02:33, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: :WP:ANYBIO (Wikipedia:Notability)