I'd agree with the decision that an article about the son would be
overboard. He is notable both for being the son of a celebrity and for
dying perhaps in a mysterious way or at least at a fairly young age.
That isn't enough for a separate article.
However on the flip side, the son, and his death, were prominently
mentioned in several news stories, and so the son's existence (and
death) should be mentioned within the John Travolta article.
Prior to the media spotlight, I might have said that we don't have any
decent sources for anything interesting about the son.
Will
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Nash <pn007a2145(a)blueyonder.co.uk>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 4:32 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] "A short article is not a stub."
WRT children; the infobox templates for modern personalities (e.g
Television
presenters) tend to specify that children should only be listed of they
are
notable; for example, [[Michael Douglas]] is listed as a notable child
of
[[Kirk Douglas]]. But this is because [[Michael Douglas]] is notable
in
himself, rather than any inherited notabilit; anmd os we list him theree
When we consider inherited aristocratic titles, there seems to be an
assumption of necessary notability, as exemplified by examples already
given; this, as far as we are concerned, provides historical
continuity. The
problem is discontinuous inheritance, such as is shown by [[Earl of
Salisbury]], and there are worse example to be found.
Back to modern times; should the infobox for [[John Travolta]] mention
his
children? We had a debate about this a couple of months ago when his
son
died suddenly; there was nothing notable about him except his
parentage, and
consensus is that notability is not inherited, so IIRC, although it was
mentioned in the JT article, any attempt to create an article about the
son,
or his death, was quashed.
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