User talk:GreekParadise

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[edit] Obama relatives

Are Sarah onyango obama and Madelyn Lee Payne notable for anything other than being relatives of Barack Obama? If not, they should be merged into Barack Obama. Jfire (talk) 04:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

As far as I know, that's their only relevance. They are the living grandparents of Barack Obama. (But I can't edit him because he's locked.) However, the details of Sarah Obama's life are interesting, as is the fact that she lives in a remote Kenyan village and that Obama has visited her. User:GreekParadise

Ah, I see, it's semi-protected. I will tag them as candidates for a merge, and then when your 4 days are up you can merge them there. I agree that that's interesting, it's just that per our notability guideline, unless they're notable on their own account, they should be covered in the Barack Obama article rather than in standalone articles. Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia, hope you like it here! :-) Jfire (talk) 04:57, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

By the way, you can sign your talk page comments with the date and time using four tildes: ~~~~. Like this: Jfire (talk) 04:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Cool. I was wondering how to do that.GreekParadise (talk) 15:19, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

There are also pictures of Sarah Obama that I wanted to use but I didn't because I was afraid of copyright violations. Perhaps you could do it for me. I think it's also interesting that she has no television.

Hey GreekParadise, let me know what you would think of moving Sarah Obama to Kenyan relatives of Barack Obama, using the content from this rewrite I've done. I think you'll have a lot less trouble with notability concerns this way. Jfire (talk) 19:41, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I read your article and I think much of the rewrite is fine, but I do think that Sarah Obama plays a special role in Obama's life that the other Kenyan relatives do not play. There's a reason the media always goes to her for first comment. How about this compromise? We rename the "Sarah Obama" page to be "Sarah Obama and Barack Obama's relatives in Kenya." I think people are more likely to search for "Sarah Obama" than "Kenyan relatives of Barack Obama."GreekParadise (talk) 21:22, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Madelyn Dunham

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[edit] AfD nomination of Sarah Onyango Obama

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