Talk:Lives of the Irish Saints
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[edit] Notability?
This article is primarily being created as a "catch-all" for those biographies of saints which are basically too short to deserve their own article. Right now, I'm going through the major reference work on the subject, and adding indicators of which individuals are mentioned in which books. Then, as I finish referencing the various sources available, I'm going to try to place the stub bios in these articles. I'm not sure if that's sufficient for a separate article or not, though. John Carter 23:28, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
- There's a difference whether you're writing about the book or the subject of the book. If you are trying to demonstrate that a book is notable, you may be looking for evidence of sales, literary criticism, derivative works, etc. If, as you explain, you are writing about people covered in the book, all that is not necessary, and it seems that these people, taken as a whole, are notable. Shalom Hello 23:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
- As indicated above, I'm not sure whether the book itself will meet notability requirements. Unfortunately, many of the people who are referenced in the book may be referenced only in that book (barring the Holweck), and not be sufficiently detailed to ever have substantive, separate articles of their own. Given the sheer number of these people (around 20,000 or more, I think?) I don't want to have these mini-stubs about individuals who don't really have much to say about them lingering for long. It's my hope that, on finishing the Holweck book, and maybe the other major such directories, to take those who are still really short and combine them into the single article on the book itself. Whether that's enough reason to keep the article is another matter entirely, though. John Carter 23:41, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
