Talk:Alison Treganning

Citations?
My stars, but this article needs citations. -- Evertype·✆ 11:36, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed.Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 16:15, 25 May 2009 (UTC)


 * A search of Google books finds no references at all to Alison Treganning. There are 179 ordinary Google hits for "Alison Treganning", but many of them are clearly derived from Wikipedia. The best I can find is in a letter to The Guardian dated 14 August 2006 from a Martin Bell of Port Isaac, who says "The prayer book continued the eradication of the Cornish language, which ended in 1906 with the death of the last native speaker, Alison Treganning", and that at least was more than two years before this Wikipedia stub was created. This Martin Bell says here that he is not the war correspondent Martin Bell. I have looked on ancestry.com and no one called Alison Treganning appears in any available census records (1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901). In 1881 there was an Alice A. Tregonning (born about 1864 at St Austell) living at Tormoham, Devon, and in the same year an Alice Caroline Tregonning (born about 1838 at Redruth) living at Illogan. An Alice Champion Tregonning was born in the Falmouth registration district in 1840 and an Alice Ann Tregonning was born in the Liskeard district in 1855. I can find no record of anyone of any spelling of the name dying in 1906. 'Alice Tregonning' is a fictional housekeeper in D. M. Thomas's Charlotte. It doesn't seem to me to be enough to justify the existence of a Wikipedia article. Perhaps someone else can do better. Moonraker2 (talk) 22:17, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Even though the stub was indeed only created in January 2009, Martin Bell could well have had the name and year from the Wikipedia article Cornish language, though: this edit seems to be the origin of the mysterious Alison Treganning, and chance is that she is simply a hoax invented by the user who made the edit (though in his favour, it can be argued that his other edits seem serious and legit). In view of this state of affairs, I wonder why Alison Treganning is kept at all – even if only as a redirect to Cornish language, which is pointless and useless for the reader as Alison Treganning isn't even mentioned in the article anymore, so the user will be left in the dark as to her significance –, instead of being deleted entirely. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 00:14, 18 March 2011 (UTC)