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This page named James Howard along with Frances Howard were originally disambiguation pages that were both hijacked in June 2007 by anonymous user 217.43.4.16 (talk) (a family member?). Per WP:Disambiguation#Page naming conventions I am going to restore them as disambiguation pages, also because:

  1. the names are very common, and likely to be searched in reference to a wide number of different individuals
  2. the pages were originally disambiguation pages, and were hijacked

I recreated the Frances Howard (actress) page, because she made 4 films, has an IMDB entry and Google search finds, and married Samuel Goldwyn, and was sister to Sidney Howard who wrote GWTW screenplay, so I think she passes the Notability test. But as for James Alan Howard, other than being father to Frances and Sidney, I can't make the case that he passes the test of WP:Notability (people), even with possible inclusion of the {{bio-notability}} tag to give it a fair shake. But the page would just soon get deleted, and that makes it even tougher to pass later, if something validly notable should then turn up. Wikipedia is not a family tree, much as I would sometimes like it to be, so maybe I will just preserve here the anonymous editor's comment that James Alan Howard (1869-1937) was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to John Howard and Martha Lewis Howard. Beyond that, he probably can't pass for a wikilink, unless:

  1. a secondary source ref (book, news article) discusses him as a primary subject
  2. for his own notable merits (published, filmed, recorded, got elected, went to prison)
  3. recognized beyond his local community (state-wide, national)

There will also be a need to fix the What links here wikilinks, if directed to the old/new page...Steven Russell 10:24, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]