Talk:Leslie Durrell

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[edit] Why is this an article?

Why is the unassuming younger brother of a famous person worthy of a separate article? (Obviously, I would argue that he isn't). It reads like a tabloid account, reeking of "why is this anybody's business?" - DavidWBrooks (talk) 17:52, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Nobody seems to care about this hunk of unsourced gossip, so I have removed almost all the article, leaving the bare bones of his relationship to famous people. I'm not even sure that should exist; I would turn it into a pointer to another article, except I can't decide whether it should go to Gerald or Lawrence. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 23:52, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Leslie Durrell

I'm curious as to why you deleted the page on Leslie Durrell, which you claim is "unsourced gossip about the brother of famous people".

In fact, the material is indeed sourced - from official biographies of Gerald Durrell and Lawrence Durrell. Perhaps this wasn't made clear enough - but still, surely it would have been more appropriate to simply request that the source or sources for the material were cited on the page, rather than deleting the text in its entirety. It seems to me that this is an extremely unilateral, heavy-handed approach and also one that is not in keeping with the general way things are done on Wikipedia.

I would prefer to reinstate the material and include citations of the appropriate sources, rather than to leave the page as it is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adochka (talk • contribs) 10:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

The unsourcing isn't the major problem - it's the non-notable, gossipy nature of the article. It did not give any reason why Leslie is worthy of an article. He never did anything of public note except have famous brothers, which is not reason to be in an encyclopedia - and worse, the material in the article was nothing but personal tidbits, nothing of any interest or notabiliy to anybody else. I said in the article Talk page that I thought the article was invalid and nobody reponsded to defend it, so two months later I removed the gossip. I wwould have reduced it to a mere Redirect page, except it's not clear which brother it should redirect to.- DavidWBrooks (talk) 15:40, 2 June 2008 (UTC)