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I am nominating this article for failing to prove notability by WP:BASIC and WP:GNG. This is an 8-year-old child and should be redirected and merged into the parent article until such a time there is independent notability.
Keep - Firstly, all the other Royal family members of Europe have individual articles for their kids. Secondly, the sources are good. And it falls within WP:GNG.
BabbaQ (
talk)
23:48, 14 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Again, all Royals and those of Scandinavias children have separate articles. Why should the Swedish royals be any different. Still passes WP:GNG.
BabbaQ (
talk)
06:17, 16 April 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Eastmain - it was likely not a mistake. A great number of adolescent children of nobility redirected to their parents regardless of their title/station. As noted above, please see previous AFDs of children of nobility. Additionally, King Gustaf's grandchildren
no longer have royal titles (albeit a bit more nuanced). Just being a noble is not automatic notability (see the failed
WP:NR discussion).
Classicwiki (
talk) If you reply here, please
ping me.02:13, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
This is where most of you have it wrong including the Harpe Bazzer article cited the child of prince Carl Philip and Princess Madeleine only lost their styles of His/Her Royal Highness but they are still prince(s) and Princess (s) of Sweden, Duke(s) and Duchesses and still in the line of succession[1] they are listed by the royal court of Sweden as members of the royal family and are not required to perform any duties incumbent of the head of state
Ug culture (
talk)
05:37, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect per nom. The fact that this article contains no information about his life since his christening suggests that he is probably not in the public spotlight. In fact, he and his sisters have had their royal status downgraded since they were born; since 2019, they no longer have the style of "royal highness" and are no longer considered members of the Royal House, although they remain princes and princesses and members of the Royal Family.
[1] Practically speaking, this means that as adults they will be expected to pursue careers outside royal duties rather than being paid by the monarch from government funds. (That's not mentioned in this article, but is mentioned at the redirect target.) If, in the future, Nicolas does go into the public spotlight, whether as a socialite or as anything else, the article can be re-created at that time. --
Metropolitan90(talk)03:54, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
His grandfather's sisters(The Haga princesses) are nolonger members of the royal house and their articles are in existence.why then should articles of those who is in the line of succession be deleted and members who are not be retained
Ug culture (
talk)
05:20, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
The
criterion we use is not "Is this person in the line of succession?" but rather "Do we have enough significant coverage of the person in reliable independent sources to warrant an article?". Among persons related to monarchs, there may be some who are excluded from the succession but remain public figures and thus generate significant coverage, while others may be in the line of succession but out of the public eye at least for now (particularly young children). --
Metropolitan90(talk)06:39, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
And that is an approach that can be strongly questioned. Princes and princesses of reigning royal families are per definition important persons who warrant their own articles. Therefore, this article should be kept, and the deleted articles of his siblings and cousins should be reinstated.
Marbe166 (
talk)
09:24, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
if we are to go by this then Former Monarch of Denmark's grandchildren (prince Joachim's children) whose titles have been taken away and they do not generate significant coverage their articles have not been withdrawn and like Marbe166 said the deleted articles of prince Nicolas's siblings and his cousins should be reinstated
Ug culture (
talk)
19:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Keepaddendum: over 4 000 hits in
Mediearkivet Retriever [
sv. Okay, some of them are about the Greek prince and the remainder is ~90% gossipy tabloids, which still leaves a couple of hundred hits in Swedish mainstream newspapers. I don't buy that we should have special rules for the nobility, it's the 21st century after all, but neither should anti-royalist sentiments cloud our judgement.
Draken Bowser (
talk) 09:53, 18 April 2024 (UTC) (
talk)
07:14, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect. Articles shouldn't be recreated in violation of a previous community discussion. There's insufficient here for a standalone article at present.
Celia Homeford (
talk)
10:14, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect First, I can't see how he meets
WP:GNG. In many AfD discussions the phrase "Meets WP:GNG" seems to be just an elaborate
WP:VOTE. If you think that he falls into WP:GNG, please explain why, otherwise your contribution does not provide much progress into a discussion. Second, please refer to the
2020 AfD discussion. If you want to reach a different consensus, you should explain what changed since then. Third, just beeing related to someone notable, like a ruling monarch, does not mean automatic notability, see
WP:BIORELATED. --
Theoreticalmawi (
talk)
17:29, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect: Titles are not, and should not be, part of the criteria for
NBASIC. All of the coverage is about him as a relation to his parents and even then a lot of them are just photo galleries which do not amount to substantial coverage, which is to be expected as a christening is a pretty routine event - so they do not meet GNG by my reckoning. I don't know what is meant by
Marbe166 saying per definition important persons who warrant their own articles, what definition is this refering to? Being an heir to anything shouldn't confer notability since
notability is not inhereted. It is reasonble to assume that there will be coverage of this subject once he grows up, but since
that's in the futre there's no good reason to have an article at the moment. ----
D'n'B-t --
17:20, 17 April 2024 (UTC)reply
The relevant section of
WP:OUTCOMES -- which isn't even a policy or guideline anyway -- doesn't particularly support keeping this article. It says, "The descendants of monarchs or nobles, especially deposed ones, are not considered notable for this reason alone. The principle that
Wikipedia articles are not genealogical entries is often mentioned in this context. But persons who are active in their capacity as a member of a royal house or as a holder of a title of nobility will often receive media coverage for it, which may help establish their notability according to the
general notability guideline." (See
WP:MONARCH.) Prince Nicolas, as an 8-year-old child, is not exactly "active" in the capacity of a member of a royal house. --
Metropolitan90(talk)04:39, 19 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect: Redirect to mother and revdel everything. Nicolas is a
non-public figure, a child that has done nothing notable, and the only coverage about him is from royal-watching tabloid publications. The keep votes basically amount to "he has a royal title" or "he's in a royal family", but there's no SNG that says every royal gets a page no matter what.
voorts (
talk/
contributions)
01:12, 22 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment: Several of the keep !votes above rely on the fact that other article exist and that we'd also have to delete other articles if this one is deleted.
WP:WHATABOUTX is a bad argument because we evaluate each article on its individual merits, not in reference to what other articles we may or may not have. Those !votes should be completely discounted.
voorts (
talk/
contributions)
14:06, 28 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Further comment: Otr500 provides a great reason for REVDEL here: these children are no longer in the line of succession and the press coverage is about them existing, not about them doing anything notable. Our policies (BLP) require that we respect the privacy of these children.
voorts (
talk/
contributions)
14:08, 28 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect per nom. Fails GNG and NBIO. Nothing found meeting WP:SIRS, mentions are not indepth coverage, notability is not inherited from family connections, and crystal balls do not establish notability. BLPs require strong sourcing. //
Timothy ::
talk17:47, 29 April 2024 (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
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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
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I am nominating this article for failing to prove notability by WP:BASIC and WP:GNG. This is an 8-year-old child and should be redirected and merged into the parent article until such a time there is independent notability.
Keep - Firstly, all the other Royal family members of Europe have individual articles for their kids. Secondly, the sources are good. And it falls within WP:GNG.
BabbaQ (
talk)
23:48, 14 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Again, all Royals and those of Scandinavias children have separate articles. Why should the Swedish royals be any different. Still passes WP:GNG.
BabbaQ (
talk)
06:17, 16 April 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Eastmain - it was likely not a mistake. A great number of adolescent children of nobility redirected to their parents regardless of their title/station. As noted above, please see previous AFDs of children of nobility. Additionally, King Gustaf's grandchildren
no longer have royal titles (albeit a bit more nuanced). Just being a noble is not automatic notability (see the failed
WP:NR discussion).
Classicwiki (
talk) If you reply here, please
ping me.02:13, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
This is where most of you have it wrong including the Harpe Bazzer article cited the child of prince Carl Philip and Princess Madeleine only lost their styles of His/Her Royal Highness but they are still prince(s) and Princess (s) of Sweden, Duke(s) and Duchesses and still in the line of succession[1] they are listed by the royal court of Sweden as members of the royal family and are not required to perform any duties incumbent of the head of state
Ug culture (
talk)
05:37, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect per nom. The fact that this article contains no information about his life since his christening suggests that he is probably not in the public spotlight. In fact, he and his sisters have had their royal status downgraded since they were born; since 2019, they no longer have the style of "royal highness" and are no longer considered members of the Royal House, although they remain princes and princesses and members of the Royal Family.
[1] Practically speaking, this means that as adults they will be expected to pursue careers outside royal duties rather than being paid by the monarch from government funds. (That's not mentioned in this article, but is mentioned at the redirect target.) If, in the future, Nicolas does go into the public spotlight, whether as a socialite or as anything else, the article can be re-created at that time. --
Metropolitan90(talk)03:54, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
His grandfather's sisters(The Haga princesses) are nolonger members of the royal house and their articles are in existence.why then should articles of those who is in the line of succession be deleted and members who are not be retained
Ug culture (
talk)
05:20, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
The
criterion we use is not "Is this person in the line of succession?" but rather "Do we have enough significant coverage of the person in reliable independent sources to warrant an article?". Among persons related to monarchs, there may be some who are excluded from the succession but remain public figures and thus generate significant coverage, while others may be in the line of succession but out of the public eye at least for now (particularly young children). --
Metropolitan90(talk)06:39, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
And that is an approach that can be strongly questioned. Princes and princesses of reigning royal families are per definition important persons who warrant their own articles. Therefore, this article should be kept, and the deleted articles of his siblings and cousins should be reinstated.
Marbe166 (
talk)
09:24, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
if we are to go by this then Former Monarch of Denmark's grandchildren (prince Joachim's children) whose titles have been taken away and they do not generate significant coverage their articles have not been withdrawn and like Marbe166 said the deleted articles of prince Nicolas's siblings and his cousins should be reinstated
Ug culture (
talk)
19:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Keepaddendum: over 4 000 hits in
Mediearkivet Retriever [
sv. Okay, some of them are about the Greek prince and the remainder is ~90% gossipy tabloids, which still leaves a couple of hundred hits in Swedish mainstream newspapers. I don't buy that we should have special rules for the nobility, it's the 21st century after all, but neither should anti-royalist sentiments cloud our judgement.
Draken Bowser (
talk) 09:53, 18 April 2024 (UTC) (
talk)
07:14, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect. Articles shouldn't be recreated in violation of a previous community discussion. There's insufficient here for a standalone article at present.
Celia Homeford (
talk)
10:14, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect First, I can't see how he meets
WP:GNG. In many AfD discussions the phrase "Meets WP:GNG" seems to be just an elaborate
WP:VOTE. If you think that he falls into WP:GNG, please explain why, otherwise your contribution does not provide much progress into a discussion. Second, please refer to the
2020 AfD discussion. If you want to reach a different consensus, you should explain what changed since then. Third, just beeing related to someone notable, like a ruling monarch, does not mean automatic notability, see
WP:BIORELATED. --
Theoreticalmawi (
talk)
17:29, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect: Titles are not, and should not be, part of the criteria for
NBASIC. All of the coverage is about him as a relation to his parents and even then a lot of them are just photo galleries which do not amount to substantial coverage, which is to be expected as a christening is a pretty routine event - so they do not meet GNG by my reckoning. I don't know what is meant by
Marbe166 saying per definition important persons who warrant their own articles, what definition is this refering to? Being an heir to anything shouldn't confer notability since
notability is not inhereted. It is reasonble to assume that there will be coverage of this subject once he grows up, but since
that's in the futre there's no good reason to have an article at the moment. ----
D'n'B-t --
17:20, 17 April 2024 (UTC)reply
The relevant section of
WP:OUTCOMES -- which isn't even a policy or guideline anyway -- doesn't particularly support keeping this article. It says, "The descendants of monarchs or nobles, especially deposed ones, are not considered notable for this reason alone. The principle that
Wikipedia articles are not genealogical entries is often mentioned in this context. But persons who are active in their capacity as a member of a royal house or as a holder of a title of nobility will often receive media coverage for it, which may help establish their notability according to the
general notability guideline." (See
WP:MONARCH.) Prince Nicolas, as an 8-year-old child, is not exactly "active" in the capacity of a member of a royal house. --
Metropolitan90(talk)04:39, 19 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect: Redirect to mother and revdel everything. Nicolas is a
non-public figure, a child that has done nothing notable, and the only coverage about him is from royal-watching tabloid publications. The keep votes basically amount to "he has a royal title" or "he's in a royal family", but there's no SNG that says every royal gets a page no matter what.
voorts (
talk/
contributions)
01:12, 22 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment: Several of the keep !votes above rely on the fact that other article exist and that we'd also have to delete other articles if this one is deleted.
WP:WHATABOUTX is a bad argument because we evaluate each article on its individual merits, not in reference to what other articles we may or may not have. Those !votes should be completely discounted.
voorts (
talk/
contributions)
14:06, 28 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Further comment: Otr500 provides a great reason for REVDEL here: these children are no longer in the line of succession and the press coverage is about them existing, not about them doing anything notable. Our policies (BLP) require that we respect the privacy of these children.
voorts (
talk/
contributions)
14:08, 28 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect per nom. Fails GNG and NBIO. Nothing found meeting WP:SIRS, mentions are not indepth coverage, notability is not inherited from family connections, and crystal balls do not establish notability. BLPs require strong sourcing. //
Timothy ::
talk17:47, 29 April 2024 (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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