On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/2/23 Ben Kovitz <bkovitz(a)acm.org>rg>:
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.
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:
But then someone "fixed" the system and it broke.
I *think* it was this edit:
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.
How would you approach those articles? The same as for any other murder?
And then there are the child saints: