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Talk:John Harbord, 8th Baron Suffield

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167: 216: 195: 105: 81: 50: 226: 390:" -- but there is nothing about what he did in his entire adult life until he died at age 37. While there were times in British history when some members of the nobility could live off their income without doing anything that be could considered work or even philanthropic activity, the last few years of Harbord's life was not one of those periods. As indicated in 21: 304: 115: 409:
is ambiguous as to whether members of legislatures are considered notable as such. (It says, "Elected and appointed political figures at the national cabinet level are generally regarded as notable ..." but legislators don't necessarily serve in national cabinets; I'm not sure exactly what the writer
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have articles about other British barons of his era. Some other barons who held their titles at the same time Harbord did, but don't have Knowledge articles of their own. The links in the following sentence are to the titles, which list all the holders of the peerage, from which you can see that the
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Since there is some strong opposition to the merge, I won't go forward with it ... for now. This article is still extremely lacking, with the only source being a deprecated one. At least as importantly, the article is a complete void as to anything the man did between leaving school and dying 20
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Because the discussion has already been had at AfD which produced a clear consensus to keep. Given the article talk page is obviously not so obvious to other editors as an AfD, this is like having another AfD that's not so well attended! Which, let's be honest, looks rather like trying to get it
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says that "Politicians and judges who have held international, national, or (for countries with federal or similar systems of government) state/province–wide office, or have been members of legislative bodies at those levels" are "presumed to be notable". But note, that says "presumed", not
442:"guaranteed". From what we have in this article, that presumption has been overcome by the fact that Harbord never took his seat in the Lords and no information has been forthcoming about anything he did in his adult life except for his date of death. 398:. So I assume that Harbord was doing something worth mentioning during the war years, until he died in June 1945, but this article leaves a complete void as to what. (As far as I can find, he did not die on active service in the military.) 339: 560:. It's a little underhand to effectively try to get it deleted on another forum. As to other barons from that era not having articles, Knowledge is a work in progress. Current lack of an article certainly does not set a precedent. 31: 678:
given that he never took his seat in the House of Lords. There may have been a very good reason for why he didn't take his seat in the Lords, but so far nobody on Knowledge has found out what that was.
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I am recommending a redirect because the content of this article, while supposedly a biography, is almost entirely about the subject's family members. The article says that Harbord "was educated at
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When the AfD was closed as "keep", the closer wrote, "The possibility of this article being changed to a Redirect can be discussed on the article talk page." I am doing so now.
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deleted anyway without any input from those pesky editors who objected at the main forum for getting things deleted! Generally that's not how things are done on Knowledge. --
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by virtue of having been a member of the House of Lords, which indeed he was from 1943 to 1945. However, Harbord never took his seat in the House of Lords, and
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Keep for substantive and procedural reasons. First, he was a voting parliament member: he made laws that effect a country of 60 million people and
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persons who held all those titles in 1945 do not have Knowledge articles of their own. This group of peers from that era without articles include
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How is it underhand(ed)? The AfD closer specifically left the door open. I say (no surprise) march (re)directly through it. He fails
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says, "The notability of ... other nobility (dukes, counts, barons, knights, etc.) is decided on a case-by-case basis based on the
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Thus, I recommend that this article be changed to a redirect unless and until the void in the subject's biography can be filled. --
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I have to agree, this doesn't seem to be something for an RfC to me either. Just a discussion is called for.
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because only one source has been cited in this article, a page from cracroftspeerage.co.uk, which is a
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on Knowledge. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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of this sentence had in mind as to national legislators, but at most it says they are "
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It was suggested in the AfD that Harbord is automatically considered notable under
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I already posted there, "There was some significant opposition to the merger at
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consensus can change but that happens over years rather than days
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Please also close the duplicate merge discussion you opened at
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years later. As discussed in the AfD, Harbord was not a
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Conscription in the United Kingdom#Second World War
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