Talk:Jehan (singer)

Moving to "Jehan (singer)", and having "Jehan" redirect to "Jean (male given name)"

Since I had no answer to my previous message, I'll act upon the adequate changes for a more consistent encyclopaedic answer for the search the "Jehan", a very common first name in human history, even though less used nowadays (mostly replaced by its modern version "Jean"). Also still not sure the singer Jehan is that notable anyway. But in doubt, I won't propose deletion, and just rename it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Poloch (talk • contribs) 06:31, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Oups, I don't have move rights on the English Wikipedia. I'll request a move instead. Poloch (talk) 06:39, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Jehan should lead to the disambiguation page

Hello,

why is this person's article the direct answer on the search "Jehan"? I mean he is not that famous, not even locally in France (maybe very locally in his city, no idea). Jehan is before everything else a name, and to have an encyclopaedia page like this as first response on a search on an usual name which could relate to many people, you should be really extra famous, not just any barely known singer guy (like ok "Jehanne" redirect to Joan of Arc. Here this is acceptable, because she was like the most incredibly known Jehanne).

Note that I have nothing against him (I don't know him), and I am perfectly ok for him to have a page, maybe using the particular orthography "JeHaN" (as it seems it is the official style he desires after all!), or else with a complement "Jehan (Troubadour)", or even "JeHaN (Troubadour)". Then the page listed in the disambiguation page (and NOT at the top of the disambiguation list like currently, as though he was the most "obvious" search for Jehan). I mean in this list, he is maybe as much known as any other Jehan (and the most known in the list if we were to put one on top would be Jehan Rictus, I guess). And finally the search "Jehan" should lead to the disambiguation page.

Because right now, this seems to me more like a promotional page.

For the disclaimer, my name is Jehan too (my actual birth name!) and I always find quite disturbing that both in the French and in the English wikipedia, a search on my name returns this unknown guy as main response. I would expect an encyclopaedia to have the name origin/meaning, alternative forms (quite a bunch for Jehan all over the world!), and then a list of public people named Jehan. Certainly not the current state. I could actually modify this, but I want to give my opinion and intentions to do so first.

Poloch (talk) 02:30, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Untitled

Somebody put the following banner on the article: "BLP unsourced|date=November 2009"

But on my opinion, people are working freely on articles; they are mainly driven by the pleasure of gathering information. Then, if some buddies try to put pressure on authors ("bring references, otherwise I'll delete your article") these buddies will surely not speed up the writing process; and afterwards, Wikipedia will be at risk to lose these laggard articles. I am very sorry to say that…

Likewise, a lot of interesting popular traditions are not very well documented (Marla and Shamanism in the Ural Mountains, Tschägätä in Switzerland, Menestrèl in the Midi of France and Northern Italy, Galician cultures in Spain and Portugal, Dohemne and Pontikos in Turkey, Mandean in Iraq and Iran, Samaritans in Israel, Yazidi in Kurdistan, and so on…); but on my opinion, theses traditions are maybe as interesting as some internet-driven commonplaces. I am again, very sorry… --85.5.9.129 (talk) 04:08, 30 January 2010 (UTC)