Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Myson of Chen

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 no consensus. Mailer Diablo 00:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Myson of Chen

non-notable substiturion in the list of the Seven Sages. [1]. (The OCD calls him, even in antiquity "famous for his obscurity"; and that's from their article on the Sages; he doesn't have one of his own. ) If this is rewritten, it should be done from standard sources, and without reference to Wikinfo; WP and Wikinfo are happiest apart.

• Delete Nominator vote. Septentrionalis 00:46, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Royboycrashfan 02:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep (but move to Myson of Chenae, preferably). Being mentioned by Pausanias and Plato, and being in the OCD, makes him notable enough for me. Of course the article should actually state that he is only a minor candidate for 7-sages status. I have no opinion about the Wikinfo vs. Wikipedia thing. Lukas ^(T.|@) 08:45, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per LukasPietsch. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 09:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delte per nom. --Terence Ong 10:20, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete since this information can be found in the Seven Sages of Greece article. Also, this title is incorrect. Whichever administrator closes this vote needs to understand that it's "Myson of Chenae." This is a useless, redundant little stub, and even though I'm a classicist, I think this ought to go. Harry Bagatestes 15:53, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
  • I actually found more hits for the spelling Chenai. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-3 22:29

• Comment: Shouldn't we at least keep him as a search term? And I really do like the detailed list of actual classical attestations, which is one piece of info that's not in the other article now. So, I think a merge and redirect (from the correct title, of course) is the least we should do, if not a keep and move. Lukas ^(T.|@) 16:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
  • I have added above that Myson doesn't even have a separate article in OCD. The redirect from Myson of Chenae will be done now. Septentrionalis 18:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Passes my Karen Importance Test. There is a lot of information that can be added to this article. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-3 19:29
• Comment: The Oracle of Delphi called Myson of Chen the wisest of all men. Now isn't that enough of your subjective quantity of "notability" to warrant its own article? — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-3 20:49
• Keep per LukasPietsch.--Andrew c 00:33, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I don't believe this. The article is good and informative. Our purpose is to educate. The "voting" is B.S.WHEELER 14:19, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment The article Seven Sages of Greece is already very long. It doesn't have space to talk specifically about one person. There is already seperate articles on the seven sages, Myson of Chen deserves one by itself and a description of his philosophy. I have already learned much about Myson of Chen and I commend the person who improved the article greatly. Thanks a billion. WHEELER 14:44, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep There is enough here to warrant inclusion. However, WikiInfo is unnacceptable as a reference. older ≠ wiser
• Keep: Not all characters named in Plato deserve names, but being part of a named set makes deletion particularly questionable. It's difficult to see how to merge all of the Sages into the Seven Sages article. --Nema Fakei 22:23, 6 March 2006 (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.