Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Lincoln Bakewell
or '''Merge both to Personnel of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition'''. So many detailed accounts have been written of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (even one focussing on the ship's cat) that, in practice, being a minor member on it probably ''does'' satisfy . Having said that, the same few facts for each (though apparently a few more for Blackborow than for Bakewell) get repeated in the various sources - Bakewell being American, Bakewell smuggling Blackborow onto the ship as a stowaway, Shackleton's reaction when Blackborow is discovered, Blackborow being chosen as the first person to land on Elephant Island, Blackborow's toes becoming gangrenous and having to be cut off, the photo of Blackborow with the cat on his shoulder - which may make summarising them in the article on the expedition's personnel a slightly better idea than standalone articles
— User:PWilkinson, 23:20, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)