Talk:Marie-Louise Meilleur

Assessment

I have assessed this as a Stub class, mainly because I do not quite feel that it satisfies the requirements for a Start Class. If it were properly referenced and written, it might pass for Start with a little extra expansion. Similarly, I gave it low priority, because I do not feel that many readers would be familiar with her, despite the fact that is the oldest Canadian ever. Cheers, CP 02:24, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

How many grandchildren?

The various news sources give the number of children as 10 and the number of grandchildren as 75 or 85. This means that each of Marie-Louise's 10 children would have had to *average* 7.5 or 8.5 children, and presumably also that this number would be alive in 1998, when Marie-Louise died. I can find no source that comments on this extraordinary productivity, nor details the number of children had by each of her children, though there are sources that name the children and their spouses and birth/death dates. Eleanorba (talk) 14:20, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't have any idea, but just to say that families that large were not unusual until maybe a generation ago (maybe 2) in Quebec and other French Cdn Catholic families. I still know people who had 10 siblings. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.180.217.113 (talk) 18:35, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Notability

This person has held the title of oldest living person, is the oldest Canadian and is the fifth oldest person ever. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 18:14, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Merge

My BOLD merge was undone, as explained in the section above. I still think this is an optimal merge candidate. This is about as much information as exists on the subject, and it adds up to only a couple short paragraphs. There is enough interest in her that there's a bit more than routine coverage, but not very much, and a significant amount of that information is related to her nationality as Canada's longest-lived person. Therefore, putting it in a list format is not eliminating, but merely consolidating, that information. Furthermore, without her entry List of Canadian supercentenarians is fairly empty, so our readers would get to both Meilleur and additional information on longevity. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 02:17, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

I support re-merging this woman's article to the Canadian list with a mini-bio, per the nominators succinct explanation. Newshunter12 (talk) 00:55, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

The merge was appropriate. As one of the longest-lived humans ever documented, Ms. Meilleur was clearly more notable than "run-of-the-mill" people aged 110+, however the very limited facts available about her life do not warrant a separate article, per WP:PAGEDECIDE. Indeed, a couple paragraphs in the list of oldest Canadians, along with a redirect from her name, are the best way to represent her in the encyclopedia for the benefit of readers. — JFG ^talk 06:50, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Additionally, the full list of her non-notable children in the articles's infobox is likely an undesirable invasion of privacy for her family. That information should not be kept in the merged version: just say she had 12 children and 85 grandchildren (later generations are frankly irrelevant fancruft). — JFG ^talk 06:55, 8 December 2018 (UTC)