Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geoffroy Therage


 * 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 of the debate was REDIRECT to Joan of Arc. Owen&times; &#9742;  21:31, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Geoffroy Therage
The entire stub is redundant and cannot grow. This was Joan of Arc's executioner. He was merely the man who carried out the sentence, not anyone involved in the decision. The only document that mentions his existence is her retrial transcript and his one quote, that he feared damnation for having burned a saint, is already repeated in the main Joan of Arc article. Durova 04:48, 29 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete as per nom, unless evidence of other claims of notability can be made. Bwithh 05:10, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete since it's acceptable to vote on one's own nominations. Durova 08:49, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Joan of Arc. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:50, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * A redirect is unnecessary because there is barely enough historical data about this man to constitute a footnote. It is rather unusual that Wikipedia names him at all.  I have never seen a biography that indexed his name. Durova 14:21, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think it matters a lot, but I'm sticking to my guns, on the basis of, shrug, "what harm does it do?" We're told that redirects are cheap, and it's a real historical person, etc. etc. I'm probably wrong, but I have a faint, faint synaptic firing that says maybe I've heard the name somewhere. However, the only likely places are Shaw's Saint Joan and Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. I just did an online search of the PG text of the Twain book  and the executioner is not named, only referred to as "the executioner." Deletion would probably do no harm since a search would find the Joan of Arc article. In fact most Google hits on "Geoffroy Therage" are to copies of the Wikipedia article on Joan of Arc. So, it doesn't matter... but I can't think of any particular reason to change my vote. Dpbsmith (talk) 21:32, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I suppose it can't do any harm to keep a few electrons gainfully employed. Durova 23:47, 29 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Redirect. Makes the article less likely to come back in the future.  Also, clear the link in the Joan of Arc article.  Someone probably thought they were doing a favor filling out a redline link. --StuffOfInterest 16:19, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Joan of Arc. Would be a good candidate for merge, except that that's already happened.  Its quite feasible that someone might look this up when doing research on the topic. Zordrac 19:38, 29 November 2005 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.