Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Étienne Trudeau

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The result was delete. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:00, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Étienne Trudeau

No assertion of notability TB (talk) 16:58, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. KuyaBriBri^Talk 17:11, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. KuyaBriBri^Talk 17:11, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

According to Wikipedia guidlines under deletion/nobability/people/this article in a nutshell:

"A person is presumed to be notable if he or she has received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject."

The article lists secondary sources that are independent of the subject. How much coverage is required for it to be "significant" is debatable, but I see no advantage to anyone in not including Étienne Trudeau. Rick Norwood (talk) 17:14, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The secondary sources listed are all but one genealogies (the remaining one being a photo of probably-non-notable building this person built). The only claim to notability made is that this person is a distant ancestor of two modern-day notable people. To my mind, this falls vaguley under the 'being the parent/spouse/child of someone notable doesn't make you encyclopaedic' dictum. - TB (talk) 08:14, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, per nom, and WP:NOTINHERITED PK T(alk) 13:05, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I don't really have a strong conviction one way or the other on this one, but was this the "first Trudeau" in the new world? I might lean towards keeping if this person demonstrates the large length of time Pierre Trudeau's ancestors have been in Canada. That said, such a factoid could probably be incorporated into his article quite reasonably. TastyCakes (talk) 19:40, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. His very distant descendants being famous is not notability. Fences&Windows 23:55, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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