Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Florence Nibart-Devouard

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The result of the debate was withdrawn. Neutrality^talk 05:46, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Florence Nibart-Devouard

While I really like Anthere, I don't think an article on her is appropriate. (And yes, I am aware that the article on Angela was kept. Delete. Neutrality^talk 18:40, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

• Less notable than schools. If notability is something known to those outside of a small area or interest group, then this isn't as notable as a school as theres more people in a city than using Wikipedia to the extent of wanting to know about Wikimedia Committee members. I'll abstain until the inevitable case for keeping comes along, as i'm unsure. Hedley 18:52, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. She's a board member and a major force within one of the top 100 sites on the internet. And on a totally irrelevant note, she's a very nice person. -- Seth Ilys 18:54, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. There should probably be a vote on all Trustees, since we seem to be nominating them one by one. Mike H 01:04, May 22, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This is borderline. Has some notability. Megan1967 04:48, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
• Emphatically keep. A similar vote was taken on Angela's article, and it was decided to keep the article - even against Angela's wishes. Anthere is of equal status to Angela, and keeping the article is a must. Anyway, if Sonja Elen Kisa (who's she?) merits an article, Anthere so much more so. David Cannon 06:12, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, agree with Seth Ilys. JamesMLane 09:13, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Board of top 100 website and does a lot of public speaking for it, so is increasingly known in the outside world - David Gerard 11:06, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I started the article. JuntungWu 11:36, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep nice person, on the board of a moderately notable online collaboration. Kappa 13:49, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. This is like asking a bunch of Pokemon fans whether List of Pokemon whose names are derived from printer cartridges should be kept or not. That is to say, I lean towards keep, but I can't really know how notable she (or Angela) is because I have a bias. – ugen64 05:10, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. I urge all voters to remember the result of this vote when borderline notable stuff comes up for deletion in other areas. Wikipedia will be better if it is not systematically biased. Pcb21| Pete 18:37, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep; I'm aware I voted delete on Angela's, but Wikipedia has broken into the top 50 on the internet and I now think that its board members are notable by default. Antandrus (talk) 05:11, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: VP of Wikimedia sounds notable to me. Zocky 05:43, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Hiya. I would not have imagined having an article given all the discussions on notability... but I also think that I should have no say on it, I have no say either on whether I "deserve" to be on it or not. Proof is you do not either, no one thought of asking me my opinion when it was listed here... I just learn about it on the irc channel :-) Just two notes

• Similar articles were created on the french wikipedia. I listed the articles on votes for deletion on the french pedia... As far as I know, french people decided to delete Ang and myself, as "non notable people of a non notable website". I thought it amuzing and an interesting biais... :-). If Angela had not been kept previously here, I would have listed both here as well.
• In case the pages are kept, it would be interesting to reflect on the long term. Does that mean all board members will be listed in the future by default ? Or what ? It is pretty hard to define how much members are notable when we know them ;-)

Anthere

• • I think this vote is great news. Combined with our aim of avoiding systematic bias, Wikipedia will be a lot more inclusionist from now on. Pcb21| Pete 07:02, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Hmmm, you might choose to delete it if I am no more on the board next year ;-) More seriously, I'd like to thank people of all the nice comments made above. I am not in a great great great mood these days. I actually had a 2 days wikiSlow to try to feel better in the past few days, but then... there was too much to do :-) Anyway, it was very nice to see editors comments and it gave me some energy... to consider very important decisions to be made about the Foundation just today during the board meeting. Thanks. Anthere

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.