Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raoul III of Valois
NOTGENEALOGY says, "Family histories should be presented only where appropriate to support the reader's understanding of a notable topic.", which doesn't really apply here as parents and children are generally considered a useful part of a biography and genealogy beyond that is not included. In general, though, counts and earls who controlled a significant amount of land (basically, all counts and earls during feudalism, I think), so a case could be made for notability based on . But more seriously, counts and earls and people of higher royal and noble ranks are almost always going to satisfy GNG. In this case, note that he was also "Raoul IV of Vexin" and in English he is also called "Ralph". Searching google books for '(ralph OR raoul) (vexin OR valois OR crepy) 1074' (1074 was the year of his death) as https://www.google.com/search?num=100&tbm=bks&q=%28ralph+OR+raoul%29+%28vexin+OR+valois+OR+crepy%29+1074&oq=%28ralph+OR+raoul%29+%28vexin+OR+valois+OR+crepy%29+1074&gs_l=serp.3..30i10k1.9429.14270.0.14798.11.11.0.0.0.0.407.1325.0j8j4-1.9.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..3.7.1079.AY-K9IxbWLY here gives a number of additional reliable in-depth sources. I think a creative search for Herbert of Vermandois and most counts and earls (and higher) would find them to be GNG as well
— User:Smmurphy, 17:42, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Notability)