Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Cheston
to Archdeacon of Bournemouth. Keeping or deleting isn't based on how many articles we have on a subject, otherwise one simply needed to make sure to pass some arbitrary threshold to be kept ad aeternum. As can be seen from the previous discussions, some are kept, some are deleted, and some are merged or redirected, depending on the actual coverage available for each individual. This is one of a series of mass-created archdeacon articles of very poor quality, with (as with many of the archdeacon and bishop articles by the same editor) lots of errors, inaccuracies, ... in many of them. E.g. for this one, we have a date of death of 1 February 1572, sourced to a page that lists him as "dead by 10 May 1572", and where another source in the article lists him as "died 1571"https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=CHSN541S&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50. He is supposedly installed as archdeacon on 21 March 1554, even though the same two sources say "12 March 1554" and "1555". The third, unlinked and rather cryptic source, is probably https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/DisplayCcePerson.jsp?PersonID=40929 this, which doesn't really help us much further with the above (natural death: 1/6/1572 gives us yet another date, and yet again not the one in the article). Looking for further sources gives us only further confusionhttps://books.google.be/books?id=5hlBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=%22stephen+cheston%22+1572+winchester&source=bl&ots=dCrGCucALv&sig=ACfU3U1_liMkuGpn086sr_eVlKkyQ3aRMQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAubGdhqnxAhXh8uAKHe7VChMQ6AEwBXoECAsQAw#v=onepage&q=%22stephen%20cheston%22&f=false but no significant coverage. Unless better coverage is unearthed, this looks to be someone failing , and the article should be deleted or redirected to a list of archdeacons (considering the dubious information in it, I don't support any actual merging
— User:Fram, 15:39, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)