Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés

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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 was Keep. Nearly all delete votes coming from apparent SPAs and IPs. - Caknuck 01:38, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés

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Article should be deleted because it doesn't list references. I can't see how with only 711 Google Results, it could adaquatley list references. Also this man isn't notable because there's very few google only picked up 711 results, compare that to someone famous like George W. Bush who has 91,000,000. Etten joe 23:24, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

  • keep Google is not the only possible source of references, aprticualrly for historical subjects. A good library might do it. Perhaps the creator can say where he found the info in the first place. Lack of references, again particualrly on a historical bio (as opposed to a recent one) is not a good reason to deelte, at elast until a reasoanble search ahs tried to find refs and failed. Assuming that the stated facts are accurate, this subject seems quite notable enough to me. DES (talk) 23:52, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I am a little puzzled by the comparison--is it perhaps intended to be taken as satire on the use of ghits?DGG 04:11, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
    • I don't think so -- the same editor previously tagged this for speedy delete under WP:CSD A7 (Bio article not asserting significance). DES (talk) 12:34, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. While his name does not appear to be spelled consistently, the subject is notable per WP:BIO. Various sources confirm that he invented margarine. [1] [2] --Metropolitan90 05:54, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. I've never heard of this man prior to this. I can't see someone needing to do research on him. When I checked the history, very few people made edits which means not very many people are looking at him. Why have an articl on if no one looks at it? (It's a waste of space). Harry Jolly
    • comment Wikipedia is not paper It is a short article, we have the space, and no one makes you read it. This AfD is already takign more space than the article. Anyone intested in the history of food chemistry or of inventiosn in general might well find this article of use. it is accurate, it is sourced (although better sources would be good), what principled reason is there to delete? DES (talk) 01:39, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Deltete. Inventing margarine isn't as important as other things such as saving the world or running for President.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jessy sir (talk • contribs) 22:13, 25 April 2007
  • Keep per DGG and Metropolitan90. John Vandenberg 22:47, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Seems notable (strangely enough, he doesn't have any article on fr.wp). 800 google hits are a lot for a person that lived that long ago. -- lucasbfr talk 10:50, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge to margarine. Pretty much any information about "him" happens to cover margarine and its various adventures. This article isn't informative on its own and can easily be summed up in margarine's. --Wafulz 13:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I'm very surprised to learn that "I've never heard of this man prior to this" (above) would be a reason to delete the page. I thought that such a situation would be the exact reason to use the Wikipedia.... :-) For me it is, at least. Anyway, if I google Mege-Mouries (without any accents) I get >12000 ghits, so he can't be that unknown. I - the original author - would propose therefore to retain the article. Mege-Mouries invented a product that is very common nowadays. I use it more often than, say, an airplane. But I don't think that anyone would seriously propose to remove the Wright brothers from the Wikipedia. By the way, I wrote the entry because the margarine article used to have a 'red' link to Mege-Mouries. User:Hippolyte. 83.162.21.103 09:52, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. It's a worthless little stub. --Loostick 20:20, 28 April 2007 (UTC) — Loostick (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • Keep. About ten pages link to this article. It is appropriate that an article exists about the inventor of margarine and his life, as margarine is worldwide an important product. It is no use to merge it now with the margarine article, as the biography article might be extended in the future. For example that he sold the patent and died a pauper, as mentioned in the references that have just been added. Ceinturion 14:16, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Few people have been making changes, could it possibly expand to a good article? --Travisbent 14:37, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Agree with Etten Joe. --24.181.176.224 17:40, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Non Notable. --71.235.43.75 19:35, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Note for closer the last edit is 2nd edit by vandal - see his 1st edit. Whilst I'm here, Keep per DGG. Johnbod 21:43, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Who cares about margarine, we can live without it! --Listen up friend 19:43, 29 April 2007 (UTC)— Listen up friend (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • Weak Delete. Although I believe it is ture, no one needs to learn about this guy. To reply to the creators comment, several great articles have blank links, there still good articles, this article wouldn't make the article margarine better. --Barringtonbo 19:52, 29 April 2007 (UTC)— Barringtonbo (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • It seems like may of the delete votes here are from anons or newly registered users with few other edits. Why would someone would go through the trouble of sockpuppetry for something so silly? Oh, and keep, by the way, the article establishes notability and passes WP:BIO.--Cúchullain t/c 22:16, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Inventing margarine seems notable in itself. Using Hippolyte Mège as a search term generates more Google hits, but of course, that shouldn't be a major issue anyway. Living in the 19th Century tends to be a bit of a disadvantage when it comes to achieving Google hits (It's not really his fault that he doesn't make the news any more.) Very strong keep.Flowerpotman talk|contribs 23:37, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - has some historical importance. Google hits not relevant in this case. Metamagician3000 23:49, 29 April 2007 (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.