Talk:Bruce Barrymore Halpenny bibliography

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Keep or merge?

Latest comment: 15 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

This is a list of books by Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, that is either put in the main article, which I think is going to make the article too long with such a list or is placed here, which is the most logical. I see nothing wrong with this and this is what the Wikipedia is about – Information. I say it should be kept. --BSTemple (talk) 08:07, 26 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

We don't keep trivia just for the sake of keeping things. This article is one of many related articles created for what amounts to free advertising for this author. I don't know how notable the author is in the first place (am looking into it), but links were clearly created in articles for which he has no notability for the overall topic. So not only is there a potential COI/spam problem going on, but we just don't do these kind of articles (full list of everything they ever wrote in a separate article) for anyone but the most famous authors in the world, and this person may or may not be notable enough for a Wikipedia article, but he's clearly not one of the most famous authors in the world. If you object to a redirect we can always delete it completely. DreamGuy (talk) 13:28, 26 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Yes the author is notable, I'm not sure about what you mean about the list, however if there is an issue I can only suggest a merge. This author and Martin Middlebrook are very well known historians and from Lincolnshire and yes what they have done is notable to be in the Wikipedia. What do you mean by "we just don't do these kind of articles"? Who is "we"? I thought this was for all editors around the world. --BSTemple (talk) 18:07, 26 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

I was asked to look at this discussion. My first instinct is that we do have stand-alone articles for works by notable authors. See Category:Bibliographies by author. I am not commenting on the notability of the authors, but if they are notable enough for wikipedia, and having a bibliography embedded in the article would overwhelm it, I do not see the issue of a separate list article. -- Avi (talk) 18:55, 26 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

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