Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comeau (Family)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) -- Mdann 52   talk to me!  07:48, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Comeau (Family)

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Only source appears to be first-party, and no notability established.  McDoob AU93  18:12, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
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 * Comeau redirects there, meaning there is no disambiguation page yet despite numerous notable people with that name (and a code compiler, a historic building, and a community). So move to Comeau and reformat as a disambiguation page with those additions. The surname/family history can just be removed, or copied with attribution to Comeau (surname) if anyone thinks it's verifiable and possibly a notable family or name. postdlf (talk) 19:42, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd be happy to see if moved to Comeau (surname) if that's seen as more appropriate. As the creator of this article I think there are enough Comeaus in North America interested in their genealogy to warrant a stub, both because they are a known Acadian family (notability) but also because this family's genealogy is unusually complete --Fkr (talk) 15:15, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia isn't a genealogy database. There are other places you can publish a genealogy of the Comeau family if that's what you want to do. Bearcat, also a genealogy buff with Acadian roots, but one who knows that Wikipedia isn't the correct place to publish my research (talk) 23:49, 22 June 2014 (UTC)


 * There are enough people on Wikipedia with this surname to justify a surname list, but an extended family genealogy isn't an appropriate use of that page — there are many more appropriate places on the web for that kind of thing than an encyclopedia. Repurpose per Postdlf. Bearcat (talk) 23:49, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I didn't intend to publish "original research" and like Bearcat said, there are other places online to get similar information, but I did think it might be appropriate to have a page that could be expanded on by others, as this family has aggregated extensive work by genealogists which tends to be self-published, and therefore lacks the standard way to reference it. I don't see why Wikipedia/an encyclopedia shouldn't provide genealogical information, and I'm glad I can find Cohen_(surname) for example. I tried to provide a concise summary of what is known about the origins of one of the Acadian families. There are a few surnames (others include Dugas, Theriault, Melanson, Saulnier, Gaudet) which are notable for being part of the Acadian culture and I don't see why I shouldn't be able to find a reference to them as such on the world's encyclopedia. I wanted to start with the family that I knew, and also start this discussion for consideration. --Fkr (talk) 00:43, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Self-published sources are usually a problem. Please read through Reliable sources to see what kinds of sources we accept. If you can't find any acceptable sources about this family, then we can't include that information here on Wikipedia, and you'll have to use some other website for it (of which there are many). postdlf (talk) 00:51, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
 * As noted, aggregated extensive work by genealogists which tends to be self-published, and therefore lacks the standard way to reference it is exactly the problem — Wikipedia's rules, in fact, explicitly prohibit the publication of original research that hasn't already been documented in reliable secondary sources. Believe me, I sympathize with your goal of making your genealogical research more widely available, but this just isn't the right place to do it. And, by the way, Cohen_(surname) isn't a family genealogy in any way, so it doesn't stand as proof that you're being treated differently than other similar topics. Bearcat (talk) 17:33, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Tentative keep as a dab page. Bearian (talk) 17:17, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
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