On 10/03/2008, Angus McLellan angusmclellan@gmail.com wrote:
If you write about some dead C19th official, you'll likely be using a book as a source for the article so verifiability is no problem, [...] As for nobody objecting, they might if the subject is a baronet, or if the book you used wasn't in English, or worse yet not in the Latin alphabet, and there are no ghits.
One of the most endearing comments I have found on an AFD was along the lines of "wow, this guy died two centuries ago and even so he has four actual google hits, he must have some notability"