Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/2/23 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
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.
He was a duke, that's not a single event. It is very unusual for someone that died an infancy to be notable, but this is such a case - there are always exceptions.
Being a duke is not an event at all. What did HE do to make himself famous? All that's there could have been included in his parents' article. What's so notable about his having been given a silly title?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murdered_children
How would you approach those articles? The same as for any other murder?
Murder is a difficult one because in many cases it just boils down to a matter of what you call the article. Should it be [[Joe Bloggs]] or [[Murder of Joe Bloggs]]? I would say the latter is preferable because most of the article will be about the murder and what happened afterwards, rather than about the person, but it makes little difference. In the case of multiple murders, there should certainly be one article discussing them all.
Or [[Joe Bloggs murder]] to avoid having too many articles beginning with "Murder". These mostly have a place, since there are enough events surrounding the murder that merit telling. Still, the naming issue is somewhat less significant than having the article in the first place.
And then there are the child saints:
Being a saint is like being a duke, it's notable and is not a single event.
It's more akin to the child murder cases, since there is often a question of martyrdom involved.
And how would you cover the story given in this article?
That article seems pretty good to me. This is an example of a child whose life was actually notable, not just one event in his life (one aspect of his life, sure, but that's the case with most notable people).
It's a great example of maudlinism run rampant. Why this 2-year old, and not another who died of cancer? It's not a unique fate.
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