Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gregory Smith (Child Prodigy)


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The result was   delete. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:33, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Gregory Smith (Child Prodigy)

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—AssassiN's Creed (talk) 09:39, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 18:58, 10 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Any chance of a rationale for deletion? I would note, pending such a rationale, that no official information about nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize is released until 50 years after the prize is awarded, and nominations can be made by very many people, including all members of many parliaments and all university professors of particular subjects (see Nobel Peace Prize), so any claims of recent nomination should be taken with a very large pinch of salt, and, even if the claim is true, nomination does not confer automatic notability. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:33, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete as there are lots of child prodigies that meet famous people and serve as ambassadors and never wind up famous in the end. And the Nobel Prize nomination claim I find hard to believe. D O N D E groovily   Talk to me  04:12, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep CBS News article ("Whiz Kid, 13, To Graduate College"), an article on the University of Virginia website, and there are more, for sure. Moscowconnection (talk) 18:58, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:02, 17 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete as failing WP:BIO. The Nobel claims should be removed if not better documented. Edison (talk) 03:51, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge/delete Place key data on the List of child prodigies page. This person does not need his own article. To be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize sounds a big deal, but first of all it's necessary for a claim like that to be backed up with evidence, which is clearly missing here. In the statutes of the Nobel committee, it is forbidden to release details of nominees for fifty years. So you can claim to have been nominated and as long as you decline to say who nominated you, you can't be contradicted - a great way to go from non-notable to notable at a stroke... Incidentally, hundreds are nominated every year, because there's a pretty big range of people who are allowed to nominate - this includes university 'professors' (a loose term in the US) or anyone who sits on any national assembly (in multi-cameral systems there could be a thousand or more in some cases). So I empathise with DONDE's doubts - while happy to be proved wrong. asnac (talk) 17:27, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete 1)WP:BLP concerns. 2)Article is mis-named, subject is no longer a 'child' but rather (according to the unverified birthyear) is now 21.  3)Also agree with Asnac & Phil Bridger re:nominations "claims" (see my comments at Talk:Gregory Smith (Child Prodigy)).  4)Sourcing seems quite problematic. Shearonink (talk) 17:39, 17 July 2011 (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.