Talk:List of posthumously-born notable people
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[edit] Concerns about this article
I have several concerns about this article.
- Does this kind of list belong in the encyclopedia? I think that the phenomenon of posthumous birth deserves an article, with particular focus on the legal aspects. Such an article also should identify some persons whose posthumous birth is itself notable. However, it is not apparent to me that there is any notability to the fact that a particular celebrity was born after his father's death. See WP:IINFO. I suggest rewriting this article as an article about the phenomenon. The article should also include discussion of (1) the ramifications of posthumous use of a deceased man's sperm and (2) the phenomenon of "posthumous birth" when a living child is delivered from the uterus of a dead woman.
- Lack of sourcing. Entries on this list need to be sourced, particularly the entries for living people.
- Title. The hyphen in "posthumously-born" is inappropriate. Hyphens should not be used after an adverb. Furthermore, lists such as this one do not normally include the word "notable." I'd prefer a title like "List of people born posthumously." However, because I have larger concerns about the existence and scope of this article (above), I have not yet renamed it.
--Orlady (talk) 14:25, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
- The title of the article is simply wrong, as best I can tell. It's impossible to be born posthumously, unless one is dead at birth. This is about men becoming fathers posthumously.
- Having said that, I was once told by another editor that we do not delete articles because we can't come up with good titles. Fine. Let's delete this because it is non-notable. I'm no expert on AfD, so I ask that someone else get rid of this pile of trivial crap. Unschool (talk) 22:17, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
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- You may think the title is wrong, but the terminology is emphatically not a Wikipedia neologism. The terms "posthumous birth," "posthumous child," "born posthumously", and "posthumously born" are well established ways of describing people who are born after the death of a parent. For examples of the use of these terms, see definitions for "posthumous birth", New Hampshire legislation on "Posthumous Child Inheritance", legal advice related to children born posthumously, or almost any history of a royal family, such as this history of Denmark royalty. --Orlady (talk) 22:31, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
