Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pierre Picault


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The result was   delete both.  Sandstein  19:57, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Pierre Picault

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Entirely speculative article on an individual who may or may not be a World War I veteran. Sole available sources are a blog entry that cites Wikipedia and Robert Young's World's Oldest People group, which is not only not an acceptable source for Wikipedia, but even itself admits that there is no media coverage of the individual. This person may indeed be one of France's last surviving World War I veterans but, until he gets coverage in third-party, independent, published reliable sources, this is original research. Cheers, CP 20:33, 16 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Nomination extended by Amalthea Talk 11:56, 17 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete, fails WP:BIO at the moment, per nomination. Even if he is officially one of the last WWI survivors and gets news coverage he might still fail due to WP:ONEEVENT. -- Amalthea Talk 11:50, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Since Fernand Goux asserts notability in the same way, I extend this nomination by this article. He was mentioned in, which is far less than significant coverage. -- Amalthea Talk 11:56, 17 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. Paul, if you want to talk about verifibility, fine, but don't speculate about whether it's a true case or not, since the mantra is "verifibility not truth", and anyway, it's obviously true and not 'entirely' speculative. Amalthea, there are other sources about Fernand Goux. You've had months to add some, but much better to delete someone else's contributions, eh? All the veterans are notable for 1 event so why don't you nominate all of them? It was quite a big event though, you know? 78.145.35.67 (talk) 18:08, 17 August 2008 (UTC)Captain celery
 * Comment For Goux, the burden of citations and verifiability ALWAYS lies on the individual who added the material, so please do not be uncivil to another editor as you were above. I noticed that you !voted Keep. On what criteria do you base that on? Cheers, CP 19:08, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment As I said, I base it on it being perfectly verifiable, but presumably the burden you mention is why so many people prefer to destruct rather than construct. 78.145.35.67 (talk) 21:39, 17 August 2008 (UTC)Captain celery
 * None of the veterans are notable alone by having fought in WWI, according to the notability criteria. The "one event" I was referring to was them being among the last living WWI veterans, which I am convinced is by itself also not enough to establish notability - WP:ONEVENT. Keeping lists (Surviving veterans of World War I, Last surviving World War I veteran by country) is not covered by this of course. That being said, I do expect that a great number of those "last survining veterans" will be otherwise notable due to "significant coverage in reliable sources" - see Frank Buckles and Erich Kästner. I do not see it at the moment with the initially nominated article, and I do not see it with Fernand Goux. All I can find are unreliable sources (blogs, ...) and/or trivial coverage. In particular, Bart Versieck aka Extremly Sexy being "told by Laurent Toussaint" does not comply with WP:V I'm afraid, and I still highly doubt that the fact makes him notable in the first place. I have no prejudice against recreating these articles once they pass the criteria of course, but at the moment I'm convinced that they don't. -- Amalthea Talk 13:04, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Apart from Wikipedia entries, Robert Young's group, and the blog that has been cited in the article, I have not been able to find any source that mentions Picault.  A blog is not a reliable source, especially considering it cites its reference to Picault to a Wikipedia article.  Considering the flaw with Robert Young's record of this person, as noted by CP, and the fact that the relevant Wikipedia entries do not provide appropriate sources to back up their mention of him, I suspect that the article on Picault could be a hoax.  I could be wrong, but the evidence does suggest this.  Re-iterating what CP said, 78.145.35.67, you were acting in an uncivil manner towards Amalthea when you said "Amalthea, there are other sources about Fernand Goux. You've had months to add some, but much better to delete someone else's contributions, eh?".  That type of behaviour will not do.  Plus, .67, you said the "it's obviously true".  How is it obviously true?   Also, I would like to address "but don't speculate about whether it's a true case or not, since the mantra is "verifibility not truth"."  That mantra is true, and the fact that we can't verify that this person exists is the reason why I believe this article should be deleted. JEdgarFreeman (talk) 19:40, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Firstly, I know the mantra is the rules, that's why I repeated it, and I know that's why you want to delete the article. The point which you haven't understood is that if you say "I only care about the rules" and there is nothing in the rules about truth, then why would you discuss whether it is true or a 'hoax'? Because you're trying to have it both ways. And in doing so, you're implying that another editor is a liar (which is more uncivil than my sarcasm). Because Bart Versieck has said that he was told by Laurent Toussaint that this is a true case. And since Mr Toussaint is one of the leading experts I said it was obviously true. But you don't know any of this because you haven't taken a few minutes to look into it. You've just jumped to conclusions like every other Jonny come lately out of the woodwork and insulted other people's efforts and intelligence. 78.145.35.67 (talk) 21:39, 17 August 2008 (UTC)Captain celery
 * Comment Captain celery, a hoax is not allowed under Wikipedia guidelines. Accusing an article of being a hoax can be seen as an uncivil act if there is no evidence to back up that assertion.  In this case, the lack of any reliable information regarding the existence of Picault does give some ground, imo, to the idea that the article is a hoax.  If I have offended anyone with my suggestion that this article might be a hoax, I would like to apologise for that.  I do not wish to start an argument, but I feel I must address the following; I am not happy that I have been accused of having "jumped to conclusions".  I have conducted an expected level of research into this case, imo.  I am aware of what Laurent Toussaint told Bart Versieck, since I found out about them when I was looking at the talk page of Surviving veterans of World War I, and from the comment I have recently made on the talk page, you can see that I did look at that article before you mentioned these two people.  Toussaint may be right about Picault, but until his information is backed up by accessible and reliable sources, the Wikipedia community can't simply take his word, as stated by Wikipedia guidelines.  This is not because I believe he is a liar, but because his information needs to be verified, as the mantra you have put forth states.JEdgarFreeman (talk) 21:56, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment I accept that you researched it, and that if you had known who Laurent Toussaint and Bart Versieck are, then you would have come to a different conclusion. 78.145.35.67 (talk) 22:24, 17 August 2008 (UTC)Captain celery
 * Comment I do not mean to sound rude, but it is the verifiability of Laurent Toussaint and Bart Versieck's opinion that counts, as opposed to knowing "who Laurent Toussaint and Bart Versieck are".  JEdgarFreeman (talk) 22:34, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and JEdgarFreeman. If some reliable source/s can be found the article can be easily recovered.  For the moment both fail WP:RS and WP:V. Moondyne 02:24, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. There should have been a separate AFD for it, since unlike the Picault case there is some verifiable information. Extremely sexy (talk) 11:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment  I agree that the article on Goux does contain information that can be cited to a reliable source (specifically, the website that is cited on the article).  However, I believe the cited website's coverage of him is trivial. According to WP:Notability (people), "trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources may not be sufficient to establish notability". What I have quoted is a guideline, but I believe trivial coverage in one reliable source is not enough to establish notability for Goux.  If more reliable sources can be shown that mention Goux, I will consider advising that the article on Goux is kept.  Until that time, I believe Goux's article should be deleted because WP:N has not been met, imo.JEdgarFreeman (talk) 11:48, 19 August 2008 (UTC)


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