Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carlos Blanco

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 USERFY. JIP | Talk 07:06, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Carlos Blanco

vanity page, impossible to verify. I looked pretty carefully, and found that Carlos Blanco has a website (in Spanish) [www.carlosblanco.es] and he appears to have a couple of articles on egyptologia.com in the "Amigos de la Egyptologia" section, but I could find no external mention of him apart from WP mirrors. The page was created by User:Carlos Blanco, and the same user added Carlos Blanco to List of child prodigies. The only editor on Carlos Blanco besides him was User:Jondel, who has been wikifying it; I asked him but he does not condone/endorse the content. userfy and delete. (see below) Mangojuice 14:36, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

• Userfy and delete per nom. --TM 19:56, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
• Userfy and delete per nom. --Walter Siegmund (talk) 05:08, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Carlos Blanco was very famous in Spain between 1998 and 2000 as a child prodigy who could read Egyptian hieroglyphs and Arabic, aside from different ancient languages. He was appointed lecturer at the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona when he was 12, in 1998, and he got a "matrícula de honor" (highest grade) in Egyptian language at the Spanish Association of Egyptology in 1998. He then got a scholarship and went for one year to Westminster School, London, and later to the University of Navarra. All data are true, basically taken from his web page, but it is not difficult to check the data revising what newspapers like "El Mundo" (one of the most important ones in Spain) told of him in 1998: * El Mundo, 17-V-1998, Madrid, 24: "Un niño de 12 años de Coslada, el egiptólogo más joven de Europa". You can see this in http://www.arrakis.es/~seha/1998.htm#MY with the headlines of 1998, 17th May. And you can check that he had his own section in "Crónicas Marcianas", the magazine with the highest share in Spain by then, in different webpages or writing to the Spanish channel (Telecinco) where it was emitted when he was collaborating (1999 and 2000). You can also check that he is a member of the International Association of Egyptologists: Blanco Pérez, Carlos Alberto (see web page http://www.iae.lmu.de/) So, I see no reason to delete the page, because it gives information on a person who has objectively been well known in his country as a child prodigy and a "superdotado". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.237.12.82 (talk • contribs)

• I'm going to look for an editor with better Spanish than me to investigate this further. I will attempt to be neutral in my solicitation. Mangojuice 18:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Mangojuice just asked me (I'm a native speaker). The kid seems to have bona fide credentials; he is listed as a member of the Egyptology Association, there is indeed an Oriental Institute at the U of Chicago, and and I have no reason to doubt that El Mundo's headline is right too (I tried to check in the newspaper's online archives but it was not webbified in 1998). A lot of information is confirmed by a recent (Feb 2006) blog interview on an independent online newspaper (Periodista Digital), where Blanco also speaks of current affairs. It certainly doesn't look like a hoax or an exaggeration. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 20:27, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Pablo-flores. Given this, my opinion is this page should still be userfied and deleted but without prejudice: I feel this article could be recreated at any time by anyone else, as long as it includes verifiable information. WP:AUTO is my only problem with this article. (I know this isn't actually changing my vote, but I felt it was worth saying, in case someone looks for this debate after it is concluded.) Mangojuice 06:09, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

As Pablo Flores (a native speaker) has said, there are good credentials and information seems to be true. It would be interesting to write to the channel "Telecinco" to see if Carlos Blanco worked in "Crónicas Marcianas" as a "superdotado" (gifted child) when he was so young, because if it is true, then he was really famous in Spain because of his intelligence and it would be interesting to have an article on him in the English Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.237.12.82 (talk • contribs)

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