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
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Comment While it is noted that there are a number of reliable sources mentioning him, this is not enough in itself to justify retaining the article and does not preclude deletion. None of those articles are substantively about himself other than in relation to his actions as the son of
Tony Blair.--
Pontificalibus (
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18:42, 13 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Which ones, exactly? A search engine result page is not a source citation, and hit counts mean nothing at all, as should be well known (at least by Wikipedia editors) by now.
Uncle G (
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01:03, 14 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment. Agreed. The percentage of Google News hits that is reliable is much higher than that of general Google web hits, but we still need to examine each individual potential source to determine its reliability.
Phil Bridger (
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22:45, 20 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep or merge. I agree that individuals shouldn't have a page on Wikipedia just because they are related to somebody notable. However, Euan Blair has, rightly or wrongly, attracted a lot of media attention for various reasons, so I'd say he passes the GNG that way. I certainly don't thing
WP:NOTINHERITED should be interpreted so that all media coverage arising from an individual's association with a notable person should be automatically disregarded.
Chris Neville-Smith (
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16:21, 14 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep Although his notability primarily derives from being the son of Tony Blair, Euan Blair generates enough media attention in his own right to warrant his own article. In that regard he is different to perhaps the younger Blair children (Nicky, Kathryn and Leo) or the
Cameron children whose notability is only ever in the context of their parents.
Pit-yacker (
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00:49, 17 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Merge back to his parents. So far he has achieved nothing notable apart from being his father's son. This led the press to pick up and report his doings what would be
WP:TRIVIA for any one else, but that does not stop them being NN.
Peterkingiron (
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22:18, 18 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment for the record - I originally closed this as keep with merging discussion on the talk page. Per a subsequent suggestion, I reverted the close since this is a
WP:BLP, after all, and there are some concerns about sourcing.
Tim Song (
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00:54, 20 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete as a non-public figure. The only things that he is known for are that he behaved like a typical sixteen-year-old when he was sixteen, and that one of his mother's indiscretions involved his student accommodation. The subject has not sought publicity, or done anything that would have come anywhere near being notable if he wasn't his parents' child, so we should leave him in peace. The only bit of content that is at all encyclopedic is the sentence about the controversy over his student flat, and that is already covered in
Cherie Blair's article.
Phil Bridger (
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18:08, 20 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom and per Phil Bridger above. I just removed a paragraph that discusses his
appendectomy. Talk about trivia. I also notice repeated BLP violations that are hanging around for months at a time - almost six in this
one example. At best it could be merged to
Cherie Blair, but right now it's just a classic example of
WP:NOTINHERITED -
Alison❤01:24, 21 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete - How is any of this notability not related to his father, and more importantly how is anything that goes into the parent article independent of what goes into the subject article?
Shadowjams (
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10:31, 21 October 2009 (UTC)reply
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
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