Someone has created articles for Walt Disney's ancestors: [[Elias Disney]], [[Kepple Disney II]], [[Flora Call]], [[Herbert Arthur Disney]]. It is my contention that these articles are not of importance to an encyclopedia. Eloquence seems to think that they're useful (see the Talk for Elias Disney). What is the opinion of the community?
Zoe
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Someone has created articles for Walt Disney's ancestors: [[Elias Disney]], [[Kepple Disney II]], [[Flora Call]], [[Herbert Arthur Disney]]. It is my contention that these articles are not of importance to an encyclopedia. Eloquence seems to think that they're useful (see the Talk for Elias Disney). What is the opinion of the community?
My position is that, where we have sufficiently detailed information (i.e. more than just the name and dates), and where this information is factually verifiable, it is OK to have it in a separate article. This is true for the Elias Disney article (Walt's father), but not for the Kepple Disney II article, which just reads:
"Kepple Disney II(November 2 , 1832 - May, 1891. American farmer born in Kellis, Kansas to Arundel Elias Disney and Maria Swan. He is mostly known as Walt Disney's grandfather."
That article should be deleted and the information moved to the Walt article. In general, I think the family tree should be part of the main [[Walt Disney]] article, but having redirects from the individual name pages to there would be OK.
Regards,
Erik
Zoe wrote:
Someone has created articles for Walt Disney's ancestors: [[Elias Disney]], [[Kepple Disney II]], [[Flora Call]], [[Herbert Arthur Disney]]. It is my contention that these articles are not of importance to an encyclopedia. Eloquence seems to think that they're useful (see the Talk for Elias Disney). What is the opinion of the community?
As a rule I have no problem with genealogical articles, or showing ancestry. I admit that the disputed articles are fairly useless, but they are harmless at the same time. They're certainly not worth a big argument.
Eclecticology
Zoe wrote:
Someone has created articles for Walt Disney's ancestors: [[Elias Disney]], [[Kepple Disney II]], [[Flora Call]], [[Herbert Arthur Disney]]. It is my contention that these articles are not of importance to an encyclopedia. Eloquence seems to think that they're useful (see the Talk for Elias Disney). What is the opinion of the community?
I think these are absolutely delightful, and I'm glad to see them.
I don't think that a biography of my mother would be good for wikipedia, unless and until I make the same kind of impact on the world that Walt Disney did. But background information on famous people, I like it.