Talk:Llinos Medi

Proposal for deletion 27 September 2023

Proposal for deletion of this page has been made: Proposed deletion: This is in a minority of council leaders who have an article, Ynys Mon/Anglesey is not a major population centre or major council, there is very little information here worthy of an encyclopedia page and now the individual in question is running for parliament (as of Sept 2023) I fear it will become a propaganda tool. There are AFAIK well established precendents for not having pages on candidates unless they are already noteworthy and IMO being a council leader of a small council (even though it is a principle authority) does not meet that bar (proposed by Kalamikid)

@Kalamikid: I suggest retaining this page since she is of notability. The style of the text is factual and neutral. Women leaders of councils are unusual and she was the first for Anglesey, a principal area, at the late time of 2013. Young councillors leaders are also unusual in the UK. Inclusion in '100WelshWomen' indicates she is more noteworthy than many others. The update about running for parliament is a factual statement and can be further updated after there has been an appropriate election. MerielGJones (talk) 09:30, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

@Kalamikid: WP:PROD is for uncontroversial deletions. Your rationale is long and does not reference deletion policy and Kalamikid takes issue with the proposal so it is not controversial. I have canceled it. If you want to pursue deletion further, please take it to WP:AFD for discussion. ~Kvng (talk) 14:45, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

IMO this article does not meet WP:NPOLITICIAN nor WP:NSUBPOL in its current form, so standard WP:GNG applies which appears this would fail imo. However, as a candidate for Ynys Môn in the next election, better wait until that before proceding. Should she win, she'll be presumed notable per NPOLITICIAN, should she lose, then this article should probably go to AfD in its current form. Council leaders and councillors do not regularly have articles, and I do not see significant coverage here. Most of the references merely discuss her position not Huws herself. Being in some list isn't notable, and discussed among local media isn't that significant, per the current references here.

The Prod nom did fail to reference policy however, and used loaded language. DankJae 12:52, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

• Medi Huws won, so meets WP:NPOLITICIAN, therefore notable. DankJae 16:07, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Commonly known as

​​I boldly removed

commonly known as Llinos Medi

citing MOS:FULLNAME. This phrase was recently added following the recent move. FULLNAME states:

While the article title should generally be the name by which the subject is most commonly known, the subject's full name, if known, should usually be given in the lead sentence (including middle names, if known, or middle initials). Many cultures have a tradition of not using the full name of a person in everyday reference, but the article should start with the complete version in most cases.

For example: From Fidel Castro: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016) ...

Seems clear this addition doesn't match the MOS. Leads and titles do not need to match if the names are related, titles have to be concise, leads not so much but not cluttering. DankJae 20:59, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

I don't know the reasons behind Llinos Medi Huws being (now) commonly known as Llinos Medi - maybe Huws is actually her married surname and she has dropped it since she divorced? But the article says she was born Llinos Medi Huws, so I would think the casual reader would expect her to be known as Llinos Huws, if anything. The fact she's now known as Llinos Medi seems to need mentioning, otherwise readers will expect her to be called "Huws" later in the article.

If her birth name is uncertain/unverified, maybe it would be better to remove it from the Infobox. Sionk (talk) 21:11, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

@Sionk Hmn, if Huws is a dropped marital surname and apparently "Medi" is her actual surname then it would make the situation clearer. Huws has been dropped in many sources. If so then we could either remove it or change the lead to

Llinos Medi, also known as Llinos Medi Huws

or

Llinos Medi (born Llinos Medi Huws)

if it is Medi's birth name. But considering this article was created at the time there was very little information on her that it probably wouldn've failed notability, may be it isn't her birth name, but her married name. DankJae 13:39, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

It's more confusing because Medi is a forename in Welsh, as well as a very occasional surname. She was certainly called LLinos Medi Huws when she was elected as a councillor in 2013, but just Llinos Medi by circa 2020. Sionk (talk) 16:59, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

I think this is to do with traditional Welsh surnames. From FamilySearch.org:

"Patronymic surnames are based on the father’s given name. Generally, ap or ab was added between the child’s name and the father’s name. For example, David ab Owen is David "son of" Owen. For a woman’s name, the word ferch or verch (often abbreviated to vch), meaning "daughter of", was used. There were many exceptions to this:

• The family could drop the 'ab' or 'ap'. In this case, his name would have been simply David Owen.
• The family could drop the 'a' and attach the remaining 'p' or 'b' to the father’s name. For example, 'David ab Owen' could have been 'David Bowen'."

Huws may well be her father's forename, and she decided to ditch this in the general election. For this reason I don't think a "commonly known as" is needed in the lead, but the full name should probably be included. GnocchiFan (talk) 17:12, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

@GnocchiFan, I think @Sionk's argument is that if we use the full name ending in Huws, we would have to refer to her as Huws not Medi. Unless we add a {{Family name hatnote}} or re-word the lead to "commonly known" or prioritise Medi.

Nonetheless, Huws has been regularly dropped from her name, not sure if it was because of her marriage or intentional for the election or media, or whether it is that of her father or her ex-husband. We are only following minor uses of the name, missing the context. DankJae 19:18, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

All I'm saying is we don't know why she was previously known as Llinos Medi Huws but is now known as Llinos Medi. We can spend all week guessing. But it wouldn't be a common or natural assumption that someone born Llinos Medi Huws would be known only as Llinos Medi. Perhaps on reflection "commonly known as Llinos Medi" should read "also known as Llinos Medi". But I still think something is required, to explain why the article is called "Llinos Medi". Sionk (talk) 21:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

In her annual reports on council activities, she changes her name from Llinos Medi Huws to Llinos Medi in the 2018/2019 report. Suggest that was when she decided to drop the Huws from her name. Maybe it would be better to call her Llinos Medi or Medi throughout the text. Her previous name of Llinos Medi Huws is in the infobox. MerielGJones (talk) 22:25, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

I've removed "Llinos Medi Huws" from the birth name part of the Infobox, until this sort of personal info is cited from somewhere. Sionk (talk) 09:40, 8 July 2024 (UTC)