This was listed on cleanup. I tidied it a bit, but it seems to me User:209.96.179.6 might be having a a little laugh, especialy as it says "she is not even listed in any architectural, art or biographical dictionary". On his talkpage I have invited him to comment on this page. Moriori 02:38, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Google returns one hit for ""Elizabeth Mytton Wilbraham"" and 136 hits for ""Elizabeth Wilbraham"". Johnleemk | Talk 09:38, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Keep. This would not be the first time that it turned out that the works of a famous man were actually the works of an unknown woman. This site is legitimate enough to me that I believe this article worth a spot. Denni 03:28, 2004 Jun 12 (UTC)
The wikipedia article is essentially a cut-n-shunt. It's taken a real, but very minor, architect (who seems to have designed one house (her own) and a couple of churches (plans that weren't used, it seems)). Then it's shunted on the notable works of a large tranch of notable architects, and welded the lot together with an evidence-free conspiracy theory. This rivals "Arborialoids" for incredibility. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 03:53, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
"Arborialoids"? -- Cyrius|✎ 08:06, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Delete. This is a hoax (or someone's vast conspiracy theory). This article itself says she isn't listed in any architectural texts. She's not mentioned in Bannister Fletcher, and the buildings the article claims she's credited with are all unambiguously credited to real architects (I checked all the scottish ones, and a couple of the others, in detail). It claims she tutored Wren, but there's no evidence of this. It claims she designed a bunch of Wren's buildings (hoping to hijack the altogether more credible theory that Robert Hooke deserves more credit for the output of Wren's office than he gets now). It claims she was the brains behind a dozen or so of Britain's leading architects, and that she's the most prolific architect who ever lived. These are vast, astonishing claims, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - yet none whatever is given. No sources are cited. This sounds a lot like "Bonnie", the fictious inventor of calculus (predating Newton & Leibniz by a century) that someone cooked up before. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 03:46, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Definite conspiracy theory - the same user edited Christopher Wren to assign the credit for most of his buildings to this individual, which (to say the least) is not a theory supported by any reputable source. -- ChrisO 09:07, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Delete—appears to be bunk. —No-OneJones 06:13, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
