Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Emmanuel Teney

EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 05:49, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Emmanuel Teney
Questionable notability. A Google search reveals that Teney is someone who is quoted on many websites; but a search for who he actually is/was results in only the meager information mentioned in the intro to his page here. - InvisibleSun 02:18, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 03:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 02:18, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * No 'pedia page, in my book, is a sign of lack of notability. Not everyone who gets a 'pedia page is likely to be quotable (indeed, most are not), but every individual who gets a Wikiquote page should merit a 'pedia page. Also, seven Google Books hits (all, apparently for the same quote), but again nothing saying who this person was. BD2412 T 05:41, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * delete. Fails professor notability test. jni 10:48, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with nom by and with comment by . Cirt (talk) 05:45, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't want us to be dependent on Wikipedia for our inclusion guidelines, but seriously, if they don't have an article, how is a Wikiquote article warranted? EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 16:58, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Wikiquote has a total of a little over 16,000 articles (of which something over 2,000 are just placeholders for years). Most of the rest are entries on people (as opposed to, say, books, films, TV shows, themes, etc.), but to be generous, we have no more than 12,500 entries on people. Wikipedia, on the other hand has hundreds of thousands of entries on people. It has over 320,000 entries on living people alone. I think it's fair to say, as a rule, that having a Wikipedia entry should be a prerequisite for having a Wikiquote entry (actually, this also makes sense for books, films, TV shows, and themes, excepting that in Wikipedia books are often covered in the article on the author). BD2412 T 20:11, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey, that works plenty well for me. My statement is more that I don't think any one project should make their entire policies dependent on another project's, but a certain level of inherited threshold-type policy is to be expected. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 05:48, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 18:15, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per InvisibleSun and BD2412. – RyanCross (talk ) 01:30, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. He is in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, but GoogleBooks and GoogleScholar show no indication that the erstwhile professor was published. As BD notes, a handful of books do quote him for an epigram or inspirational thought, but without citation and without mentioning who he was. Wikipedia would likely consider him non-notable if it came up. Ningauble 01:34, 2 December 2008 (UTC)