Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles Athanasie Walckenaer

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The result of the debate was KEEP. I have moved the page to Charles Athanase Walckenaer (as indicated on the page's wrongtitle template) and created a redirect at Charles-Athanase Walckenaer. —Korath (Talk) 15:53, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Charles Athanasie Walckenaer

This bio sub-stub reads: "Charles Athanasie Walckenaer (1771 - 1852) was a French naturalist", end of substub. How is this helpful to anyone who wanted to learn about this individual, and how is notability established? If you lived during the 19th century and someone writes an article about you, are you then automatically inherently noteworthy? To be fair, an unfiltered and combined google search results in 18 hits; 9 for "Charles Athanasie Walckenaer" [1] and another for "Charles Walckenaer". [2] Are these sorts of substubs really beneficial to our readers, or do they dilute and detract from the overall quality of the project? GRider\^talk 19:14, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Known as an arachnologist known for his work on spiders. Darwin cites his work in the Descent of Man stating that he is a "well-known arachnologist". [3] French Wikipedia has an article on him that might be worth translating.Capitalistroadster 19:43, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The usefulness of this substub comes from what links to it, Avondale spider, to which it seems he gave the binomial name, and the fact it allows the French version to be found. Kappa 19:58, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • In that case, are there any advantages to this article remaining separate rather than merging and redirecting to Avondale spider? GRider\^talk 20:04, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • That wouldn't hurt (except for French speakers), but it would be inconvenience to un-merge if more notability is established or it turns out he named a bunch of other things. Kappa 01:20, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• You get more hits if you spell his name correctly - it was "Charles-Athanase", no 'i'. Also try "CA Walckenaer". Keep (and rename for correct spelling). DS 20:45, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Move to Charles-Athanase Walckenaer, and expand. @ Megan1967 23:33, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Even without the evidence that Capitalistroadster found, he has already passed the "100 year" test. Rossami (talk) 06:49, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but translate the French. -- Riffsyphon1024 06:50, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and move to the right name--nixie 03:32, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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