2009/2/23 Ben Kovitz <[email protected]>: > 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. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
