Talk:Finola Hackett

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[edit] Notability?

Is this something we'd consider notable? We have articles on only 3 of the winners, why does the runner-up deserve one if 76 champions don't have one? Will people remember her in a week? A month? A year? Metros232 03:11, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I expect she is better known (in Canada anyway) than any previous runner-up on either side of the border. Anyway, she did win CanSpell, and if winning the U.S. bee is notable (see [1], I doubt we can say winning a Canadian bee isn't. — stickguy (:^›)— home - talk - 19:39, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

But is winning the US spelling bee notable? Just a month ago we decided it wasn't, now apparently we have. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rageshree_Ramachandran resulted in a redirect from a winner to the spelling bee article in May. I think that the reason that Katharine Close's article still stands is because its a recent event and we tend here on Wikipedia to have a bias towards current events. Metros232 19:47, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank God for WP:NBD. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 15:11, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

First of all, I've come to the conclusion that winning the National Spelling Bee is absolutely notable. It's an incredibly well-known, highly-regarded, nationally-televised competition. Listing a NSB winner is no different than listing a chess champion or a poker player (even if less info can be found on Spelling Bee winners, it's my opinion that each at least deserves a stub). As far as Finola... well, I may be biased, because I absolutely adored Finola when I watched the Bee (which I do religiously year after year). Even if she's not notable as the runner-up for the NSB, she's notable enough by winning Canada's first two National Spelling Bees. If this were to go to AfD, as Saryn Hooks did (and, FYI, I would've voted delete for her), I would make a "strongest possible keep" argument for Finola. -- Kicking222 14:35, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I think Finola should have an article, as she won the Canadian Spelling Bee twice, and also got second in the Scripps bee this year. Quite a few Canadians will think that this is notable. (And I'll get really mad if some person thinks Canada is a non-entity).

--Joe Schmedley 01:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] German words in spelling bees

I know a 100% certain way to make someone lose at these "spelling bees". Ask them to spell a German word containing any of the letters ä, ö or ü. JIP | Talk 18:04, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah. what the hell - hechsher is pure Hebrew! That is so not a word in the English language... - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 18:11, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

The spelling bee people don't care if the word isn't exactly English. They'll ask it as long as the word's in Webster's Third New International Dictionary. It might even be a word that isn't used in English at all. --Joe Schmedley 01:21, 3 July 2006 (UTC)