The result was delete. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 05:11, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
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Article has no indication of notability other than being a 'soldier in the Revolutionary War', and fails WP:SOLDIER and WP:GNG. Only one inline citation from time of creation 12 years ago. Reference list includes only passing references, non-reliable or primary sources (such as muster roll). A GB search returns several books that only say of him "Colonel Alexander Oliver, wife, and eleven children, from the west part of Massachusetts," or something similar. The largest account found simply says, "Colonel Alexander Oliver, of Massachusetts, and a valiant soldier during the Revolutionary war came to Belpre in 1789 and settled on lot No. 19, just below what is now known as Cedarville. There were eleven children, all of whom settled in Ohio." This is far short of the substantial coverage required for notability. The only thing that goes beyond this is a Marietta College source quoting a resolution rebuking him for not paying the money to then he had committed to, which again does little for notability. The majority of the content is not found in any of the cited sources, nor any others readily available, and appears to be drawn from someone's personal genealogy notes. Recently an IP questioned whether some details haven't been attributed to the wrong Alexander Oliver, but so little has been published on him that it would require WP:OR to assess this. It is orphaned except for a single list. Agricolae ( talk) 16:36, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
The result was delete. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 05:11, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
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Article has no indication of notability other than being a 'soldier in the Revolutionary War', and fails WP:SOLDIER and WP:GNG. Only one inline citation from time of creation 12 years ago. Reference list includes only passing references, non-reliable or primary sources (such as muster roll). A GB search returns several books that only say of him "Colonel Alexander Oliver, wife, and eleven children, from the west part of Massachusetts," or something similar. The largest account found simply says, "Colonel Alexander Oliver, of Massachusetts, and a valiant soldier during the Revolutionary war came to Belpre in 1789 and settled on lot No. 19, just below what is now known as Cedarville. There were eleven children, all of whom settled in Ohio." This is far short of the substantial coverage required for notability. The only thing that goes beyond this is a Marietta College source quoting a resolution rebuking him for not paying the money to then he had committed to, which again does little for notability. The majority of the content is not found in any of the cited sources, nor any others readily available, and appears to be drawn from someone's personal genealogy notes. Recently an IP questioned whether some details haven't been attributed to the wrong Alexander Oliver, but so little has been published on him that it would require WP:OR to assess this. It is orphaned except for a single list. Agricolae ( talk) 16:36, 30 March 2020 (UTC)