Talk:Richard Keynes

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[edit] Notability and scientific contributions

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Read WP:BIO:

A person is presumed to be notable if he or she has been the subject of published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject.

This article has NO SOURCE MATERIAL WHATSOEVER, so CANNOT meet this requirement.

Further, this is the article with the geonological information removed:

Richard Darwin Keynes CBE FRS (born 14 August 1919) is a British physiologist.

Keynes (pronounced "Canes") was born in London, the eldest son of Geoffrey Keynes, and thus the nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes. His mother, Elizabeth (née Darwin) was the daughter of the astronomer George Howard Darwin and the granddaughter of Charles Darwin. His brothers are Quentin, Milo and Stephen (see also Darwin — Wedgwood family).

Keynes was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College, Cambridge

In 1945 he married Anne Pinsent Adrian, the elder daughter of Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian and Dame Hester Agnes Adrian, DBE. They had four sons (and one son deceased), including Simon Keynes (born 1952), Randal Keynes and Roger Keynes.

It's almost all geneological, so it makes far more sense to just to redirect him to the article on his family tree: Darwin-Wedgwood family. Hrafn^Talk_Stalk 12:27, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The article currently

The article, as it currently stands, could be summarised as follows:

Richard Darwin Keynes is a member of the Darwin-Wedgwood family, who just happens to be a physiologist. Because the latter isn't really important, we won't bother to mention anything about his scientific contributions, but will concentrate on who he's related to. We will also list some of the 'gongs' he received, leading readers to the conclusion that he was awarded them more because of his famous relatives than because of any contributions he may have made (which are, after all, too unimportant to be worth mentioning).

This article really does Keynes a disservice. It should either give substantial information (i.e. well in excess of the geneological trivia) on his scientific contributions, or be merged into Darwin-Wedgwood family where such geneological information belongs. Hrafn^Talk_Stalk 05:27, 10 March 2008 (UTC)