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The result was delete. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:18, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Alexander Murray, 9th Earl of Mansfield[edit]

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Non-notable nobleman from Scotland. Fails WP:BIO, and in its current state goes against WP:NOTGENEALOGY. This peer inherited his titles in 2015 and therefore never sat in the House of Lords, so WP:NPOL can't be satisfied. Outside of Burke's Peerage, which is only reliable for genealogy per WP:RSP, the remaining sources don't provide secondary, independent, reliable, and/or significant coverage.

Source assessment follows:

Source	Reliable?	Significant coverage?	Count source toward GNG?
Source assessment table:
Dewar, Peter Beauclerk (August 2001). Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain: together with members of the titled and non-titled contemporary establishment. Burke's Peerage. p. 1077. ISBN 978-0-9711966-0-5. Retrieved 5 April 2011.	~ Only reliable for genealogy, per WP:RSP. On its own insufficient, since WP:NOTGENEALOGY.		? Unknown
The Peerage, entry for 9th Earl of Mansfield	Deprecated self-published peerage website.		✘ No
William Murray, the Earl of Mansfield, dies aged 85. The Herald Scotland. 2015.		Passing mention: "With his wife Pamela, he had three children; Alexander, Viscount Stormont, 59, who will succeed him to the title, [...]"	✘ No
Cameron, Greig. "Coronavirus in Scotland: Groups linked to the super-rich pocket thousands in Covid cash" The Times. 17 November 2020.		? Don't have access	? Unknown
Doughty, Eleanor. "How Scone Palace, the crowning place of Scottish kings, is bracing for the future" The Telegraph. 29 October 2017.		Passing mention. Article is about the estate, and Alexander Murray only gets namechecked once (outside of a quote from his wife).	✘ No
This table may not be a final or consensus view; it may summarize developing consensus, or reflect assessments of a single editor. Created using ((source assess table)).

Pilaz (talk) 12:58, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Royalty and nobility-related deletion discussions. Pilaz (talk) 12:58, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Pilaz (talk) 12:58, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Scotland-related deletion discussions. Pilaz (talk) 12:58, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. A wholly non-notable figure. Might have got sufficient coverage for notability if we were still in the world before the two World Wars, but not now. RobinCarmody (talk) 20:47, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per RobinCarmody Rlink2 (talk) 04:40, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - As per similar recent discussions it is well established that an inherited noble title on its own does not make someone notable enough to have an article and there is no sign that the subject has any other achievements which would meet notability criteria. Dunarc (talk) 23:20, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Earl of Mansfield. HandsomeFella (talk) 20:58, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Another article which makes no claim to notability for its subject. Frankly, I would almost suggest some of these are close to meeting the criteria for speedy deletion on the basis of no indication of importance. This article, in its entirety, consists of who Murray's children are, who his wife's parents are, and who his parents are. Not even one sentence to suggest why he is a notable individual. AusLondonder (talk) 14:26, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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