Wiki143:Articles for deletion/McCaughey septuplets

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 of the debate was keep. Mailer Diablo 17:03, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

McCaughey septuplets

Is being a septuplet enough to warrant inclusion? Delete as being non-notable. Bjelleklang - talk 12:36, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. It was notable enough to be a national news story in 1997. It was also notable enough to have an entire episode of The Simpsons based on the birth (Eight Misbehavin'). They're also the first set of septuplets where all 7 babies survived. However, that article as itis now is really ugly-looking. It needs improvement, but it should stay. --UsaSatsui 12:53, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I think their listing in the Multiple birth article is sufficient. PJM 12:54, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Wikipedia isn't paper. It's culturally notable for sure. Would support a merge of this into the septuplet article (which could itself warrant and Afd actually). — Donama 13:08, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Being the first surviving set of septuplets is a reasonable claim to notability. As such, Keep. -Colin Kimbrell 15:00, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per other comments. - RPIRED 15:37, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep The delete arguments make sense, but so do the keep ones, but the article needs improvement - as I suspect the other multiple birth family articles do too. The Dilley sextuplets seems like an ad for Pergonal and has really unencyclopedic and WP:PEACOCK bits like "Clearly, the results speak for themselves. At the time of this writing, there is a website available to follow this remarkable family's progress at" Шизомби 16:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep I remember the many, many news stories. Kotepho 20:13, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, something with this much news coverage makes it enough to warrant inclusion. How many septuplets are there out there, anyway... 7? 14? Mangojuice 21:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEMES?) 22:09, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Made national and global news and appears to be enough relevant content to justify own article.--Cini 04:46, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep A good claim to notability, but I agree the article needs improving. Korinkami 18:15, 26 April 2006 (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.