On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/2/23 Ben Kovitz bkovitz@acm.org:
On Feb 22, 2009, at 9:23 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
If there is only one noteworthy fact about the subject, the article should probably be merged per BLP1E. If there isn't more than a paragraph worth of stuff to say about a subject, you need to think long and hard about whether there should be an article.
Well, I checked and it turns out that two of the articles that I had in mind are (a) longer than one paragraph, and (b) do not have the stub tag on the main page. :) They are, however, rated Stub-Class on their talk pages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Kent (5 paras) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Nickel (2 paras)
Dora Kent should redirect to Alcor_Life_Extension_Foundation#Dora_Kent (the section already exists and contains details not given in the Dora Kent article - it also misses some details, so a merge may be appropriate). The person is only notable because of one event - her death and preservation - in those cases, we generally merge (I know she isn't living, so BLP1E doesn't strictly apply, but the logic behind it still does).
Laura Nickel is also only notable for one event, but there isn't an obvious merge target. A new article on the discovery of Mersenne Primes could be created listing all the known examples with details of their discovery, but unless someone actually wants to do that the current article may as well remain.
So what would you do with this article?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stuart,_Duke_of_Kintyre
That is one of several articles where the child seems to be notable because they were born into nobility or royalty or some other hereditary position. Even if they die in childhood, they still seem to get separate articles.
There was a list somewhere of people sorted by age. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Template_computed_age
But then someone "fixed" the system and it broke.
I *think* it was this edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Age&diff=next&old...
So I can't currently find a list of all the articles we have of children who died while very young, though distressingly most of them seem to be articles about murders of children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murdered_children
How would you approach those articles? The same as for any other murder?
And then there are the child saints:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Child_saints
Compare:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fausta_of_Sirmium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_of_Rome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Nikolaevich,_Tsarevich_of_Russia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Vicuna
And how would you cover the story given in this article?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bowen
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